Terence Beckham
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What is the name of your state?What is the name of your state?What is the name of your state? England/Florida
Hi all,
I am the father of a daughter who has been taken to live in the US (Florida). A very long and sad story that I will try not to fill up this forum with.
I live in London . My daughter is now 12. She has been in Florida almost two years. Her Mother went there under quite fraudulent circumstances with her new English Husband. From the age of 14 months up to her 10th Birthday I had a virtual shared residence (45/55 visitation/residence split). This was evaporated by our perverse 'Removal from Jurisdiction' laws here in the Uk.
The Mother and her new husband emigrated to the US on an what is commoningly referred to as an 'investor' Visa. They sold their house and he set up a security company in Florida. True to our prediction the company folded within 8 months.
The real purpose of this 'move away' was simply that a manipulative mother wanted to live in a sunnier climate. The new husband fooled the court into thinking he had great business plans (Yeah right -all a con). The new husband does as he is told by the Mother.
He has now taken up a job that I believe is in conflict with his Visa status. The initial Visa (H1 I believe) is only valid for two years. Contacts have told me that Florida is filled with Expat Brits sweating on Green Cards and citizenship applications. Money is getting tight for them and now there is talk of moving to another country. This means my daughter will have gone to 5 schools in three different countries in three years! Her schooling is being destroyed along with her headspace.
My daughter is very upset and misses not only her Father but her two half brothers (who are also still upset over the loss of their sister), her extended family and her friends. The whole situation is very cruel to all the children to say the least.
I did my utmost to prevent the 'move away' through the UK courts - it cleared me out finacially, emotionally and was all a hopeless task because the legal technicalities cannot preveent what is termed 'Removal from Jurisdiction' (97% of these cases always succeed under UK Family Law). I could not do more than I did.
What I need to know now are concerning issues of immigration and what can be done to expose the fraudulent nature of this 'move away' and try to somehow get my daughter back to her home environment.
The Uk courts are like many in the western world - Mother biased. In any event jurisdiction has for the time being transferred to Florida. I have no visitation rights from the UK courts not because I am an unsavoury character or abusive but because I dared to tell a Loonie Judge the truth about not only what the Mother was up to but what a shambles UK Family Law is. (You may have seen the recent Batman Buckingham Palace protest by Fathers Rights protestors - I am heavily involved in this political activism)
My daughter however has recently made contact with me after suffering 2 years of seperation trauma from both me and her two brothers (Her Mother took away the one photograph she had of us). The whole episode makes me vomit.
At the time of the UK court hearing the exercise of providing any visitation/contact rights in the UK were futile because the mother had shown very little regard in the past for complying with court orders and in any event once jurisdiction had transferred to Florida/USA any court orders made in the Uk courts were legally meaningless -or as I articulately put to the judge best saved for toilet paper. As a result the Judge did not like my 'attitude' and suspended all visitation rights.
The dilemma for me was I knew that the Mother would not allow for contact to continue once she had fled the country (based upon her past actions) and I also knew the real dysfunctional workings of UK Family Law.
The new husband incidentally is a disgraced former police officer (Detective in the drug squad) who lost his job and is violent (assaulted me and threatened to hit me withan iron bar simply becasue I tried to collect my daughter in conjunction with a court order! - nice eh!) He is dodgy to say the least (I hope he did not get a job in the Florida Police Department!).
Anyone over in the USA that can give some worthwhile advice?
Complicated I know!
But any help greatly appreciated.
Terence
Hi all,
I am the father of a daughter who has been taken to live in the US (Florida). A very long and sad story that I will try not to fill up this forum with.
I live in London . My daughter is now 12. She has been in Florida almost two years. Her Mother went there under quite fraudulent circumstances with her new English Husband. From the age of 14 months up to her 10th Birthday I had a virtual shared residence (45/55 visitation/residence split). This was evaporated by our perverse 'Removal from Jurisdiction' laws here in the Uk.
The Mother and her new husband emigrated to the US on an what is commoningly referred to as an 'investor' Visa. They sold their house and he set up a security company in Florida. True to our prediction the company folded within 8 months.
The real purpose of this 'move away' was simply that a manipulative mother wanted to live in a sunnier climate. The new husband fooled the court into thinking he had great business plans (Yeah right -all a con). The new husband does as he is told by the Mother.
He has now taken up a job that I believe is in conflict with his Visa status. The initial Visa (H1 I believe) is only valid for two years. Contacts have told me that Florida is filled with Expat Brits sweating on Green Cards and citizenship applications. Money is getting tight for them and now there is talk of moving to another country. This means my daughter will have gone to 5 schools in three different countries in three years! Her schooling is being destroyed along with her headspace.
My daughter is very upset and misses not only her Father but her two half brothers (who are also still upset over the loss of their sister), her extended family and her friends. The whole situation is very cruel to all the children to say the least.
I did my utmost to prevent the 'move away' through the UK courts - it cleared me out finacially, emotionally and was all a hopeless task because the legal technicalities cannot preveent what is termed 'Removal from Jurisdiction' (97% of these cases always succeed under UK Family Law). I could not do more than I did.
What I need to know now are concerning issues of immigration and what can be done to expose the fraudulent nature of this 'move away' and try to somehow get my daughter back to her home environment.
The Uk courts are like many in the western world - Mother biased. In any event jurisdiction has for the time being transferred to Florida. I have no visitation rights from the UK courts not because I am an unsavoury character or abusive but because I dared to tell a Loonie Judge the truth about not only what the Mother was up to but what a shambles UK Family Law is. (You may have seen the recent Batman Buckingham Palace protest by Fathers Rights protestors - I am heavily involved in this political activism)
My daughter however has recently made contact with me after suffering 2 years of seperation trauma from both me and her two brothers (Her Mother took away the one photograph she had of us). The whole episode makes me vomit.
At the time of the UK court hearing the exercise of providing any visitation/contact rights in the UK were futile because the mother had shown very little regard in the past for complying with court orders and in any event once jurisdiction had transferred to Florida/USA any court orders made in the Uk courts were legally meaningless -or as I articulately put to the judge best saved for toilet paper. As a result the Judge did not like my 'attitude' and suspended all visitation rights.
The dilemma for me was I knew that the Mother would not allow for contact to continue once she had fled the country (based upon her past actions) and I also knew the real dysfunctional workings of UK Family Law.
The new husband incidentally is a disgraced former police officer (Detective in the drug squad) who lost his job and is violent (assaulted me and threatened to hit me withan iron bar simply becasue I tried to collect my daughter in conjunction with a court order! - nice eh!) He is dodgy to say the least (I hope he did not get a job in the Florida Police Department!).
Anyone over in the USA that can give some worthwhile advice?
Complicated I know!
But any help greatly appreciated.
Terence
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