What is the name of your state? MD.
I am a 45 year old male, and S11 has lived with me for almost 1 year (shy a few days) without a single overnight at ex.
Ex no longer disputes full physical custody, just wants several dinners per month (such as Wed night for 1 hour)
Nor does she object to CS termination.
Still wants to have 50/50 legal with her getting the tie-breaker which means she will keep running the show. My lawyer proposed she gets legal to decide medical matters - doctors and stuff and I get to pick the school.
S11 goes to my school. We live 30 minutes away from ex.
I still pay child support since S11 started living with me to ex, who spends a token amount out of $1500/month and keeps the rest. I filed to have it canceled a year ago and the court rescheduled it twice already due to judges being overbooked. By the time the next court date rolls around, I will have paid for 400 days. But the really important thing is, S11 is where he wants to be and will have been with me for 400 days. Ex really abused him, in fact one time filed a false police report and ended up S11 getting arrested, put in handcuffs and taken to an Emergency Room, where the personnel decide that there was nothing wrong with him and he should be released to my custody. That was a year ago and the beginning of the end. She also put him a "behavioral unit" a few times as a method of punishment, where the put crazy kids.
The only thing they did in court yesterday was recognize that I have "de facto" residential custody, though it's not a court order. Not sure what legal force it has. I need a court order of course.
I am a 45 year old male, and S11 has lived with me for almost 1 year (shy a few days) without a single overnight at ex.
Ex no longer disputes full physical custody, just wants several dinners per month (such as Wed night for 1 hour)
Nor does she object to CS termination.
Still wants to have 50/50 legal with her getting the tie-breaker which means she will keep running the show. My lawyer proposed she gets legal to decide medical matters - doctors and stuff and I get to pick the school.
S11 goes to my school. We live 30 minutes away from ex.
I still pay child support since S11 started living with me to ex, who spends a token amount out of $1500/month and keeps the rest. I filed to have it canceled a year ago and the court rescheduled it twice already due to judges being overbooked. By the time the next court date rolls around, I will have paid for 400 days. But the really important thing is, S11 is where he wants to be and will have been with me for 400 days. Ex really abused him, in fact one time filed a false police report and ended up S11 getting arrested, put in handcuffs and taken to an Emergency Room, where the personnel decide that there was nothing wrong with him and he should be released to my custody. That was a year ago and the beginning of the end. She also put him a "behavioral unit" a few times as a method of punishment, where the put crazy kids.
The only thing they did in court yesterday was recognize that I have "de facto" residential custody, though it's not a court order. Not sure what legal force it has. I need a court order of course.
