My wife and I have been married since 2001. She was divorced in 2000 and a custodial mother of two(7-girl and 9-boy). Long story short... they lived in Tennessee(as do we now) in 1999. He up and ran off to Kentucky and moved in with his parents. She filed for divorce and it was finalized in 2000. He now lives two blocks away from his parents (still out of state). He was extremely sporatic in child support payments until they finally stopped. After 4 visits to court he is now on wage assignment. Visitation was set up as follows... every other weekend and every two weeks in the summer. 48 hours at Christmas and Thanksgiving. He provides all transportation.
He has gone to a lawyer to change the visitation. He now wants us to take the children to him during his visitation (a distance he created before the divorce and has never changed) and wants the for the entire Christmas break every other year. He wants to claim them every other year on his taxes, six consecutive weeks in the summer, the entire Spring Break (which we promised to his mother every year as it is the only vaction time they get that is not promised to him), and he now wants us to carry all insurance. The thing I do not understand is that the Petition he signed states "there has been a material change in circumstances in that he now lives in Kentucky and due to the travel distance the visitation set out is no longer feasible." This is an out and out LIE. He has lived there since before the divorce was requested for and he SIGNED this.
As a concerned stepfather who loves and thinks of his stepchildren as his own, I am concerned at the lack of guidance and respect he shows them anyway. I fear him gaining more control and pushing more responsibility on us. Can he do any of these on the basis of a falsehood?
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He has gone to a lawyer to change the visitation. He now wants us to take the children to him during his visitation (a distance he created before the divorce and has never changed) and wants the for the entire Christmas break every other year. He wants to claim them every other year on his taxes, six consecutive weeks in the summer, the entire Spring Break (which we promised to his mother every year as it is the only vaction time they get that is not promised to him), and he now wants us to carry all insurance. The thing I do not understand is that the Petition he signed states "there has been a material change in circumstances in that he now lives in Kentucky and due to the travel distance the visitation set out is no longer feasible." This is an out and out LIE. He has lived there since before the divorce was requested for and he SIGNED this.
As a concerned stepfather who loves and thinks of his stepchildren as his own, I am concerned at the lack of guidance and respect he shows them anyway. I fear him gaining more control and pushing more responsibility on us. Can he do any of these on the basis of a falsehood?
Tool1248