What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Court order is in Colorado
For my son, no he doesn't have internet access at this time. He hasn't talked to a lawyer yet. I don't have access to the court order but will by Monday.
Bare details, Mother was allowed to relocate with children, it has been 3 1/2 years. Children have always stated a preference to live with Father. Father has children from the day after the end of school until one week before school starts. Children are 12 and 14.
Father has always told children that the situation that they have is ordered through the courts and that no one can change them without a return to court and the chances would be slim.
Children arrive for summer this year and vow that they are not going back to their mother's home for the school year. Maternal grandmother has told granddaughter repeatedly that she can talk to the judge and tell him what she wants and it will happen. I have told her it doesn't work that way but an adult who she trusts has filled her head with this.
Father has agreed to go to court though and try to get the order changed but we haven't held out much hope and try not to talk about it with the children which is hard because that is all they want to talk about because they told their mother and she calls them several times a day and keeps them stirred up.
What I think is provable for a change of custody would be the fact that she works 5 to midnight EO night and weekends...if work records could be subpoenaed, and the fact that in their 3 1/2 years they have changed school districts 4 times, if their transcripts are subpoenaed.
All the other stuff is just what the kids say about how they are neglected and that they often only see their mother a couple hours a week because she works, attends college and has an active social life. I don't know if the fact that the kids have to share a bedroom would matter but it was a contentious matter in the divorce because, at the time, my son only had 2 bedrooms.
My main question is this. Father knows that the court date won't be before they have to return home and has told the children that they will have to go home and wait for the results. My granddaughter is saying that she will not get on the plane and if she doesn't there is no way her brother will. I have personally tried to talk to them about this and their answer is always "You don't understand, Grandma!"
How far should he go, besides verbally ordering them, to get them on the plane?
What do you think would happen if they don't?What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)?
For my son, no he doesn't have internet access at this time. He hasn't talked to a lawyer yet. I don't have access to the court order but will by Monday.
Bare details, Mother was allowed to relocate with children, it has been 3 1/2 years. Children have always stated a preference to live with Father. Father has children from the day after the end of school until one week before school starts. Children are 12 and 14.
Father has always told children that the situation that they have is ordered through the courts and that no one can change them without a return to court and the chances would be slim.
Children arrive for summer this year and vow that they are not going back to their mother's home for the school year. Maternal grandmother has told granddaughter repeatedly that she can talk to the judge and tell him what she wants and it will happen. I have told her it doesn't work that way but an adult who she trusts has filled her head with this.
Father has agreed to go to court though and try to get the order changed but we haven't held out much hope and try not to talk about it with the children which is hard because that is all they want to talk about because they told their mother and she calls them several times a day and keeps them stirred up.
What I think is provable for a change of custody would be the fact that she works 5 to midnight EO night and weekends...if work records could be subpoenaed, and the fact that in their 3 1/2 years they have changed school districts 4 times, if their transcripts are subpoenaed.
All the other stuff is just what the kids say about how they are neglected and that they often only see their mother a couple hours a week because she works, attends college and has an active social life. I don't know if the fact that the kids have to share a bedroom would matter but it was a contentious matter in the divorce because, at the time, my son only had 2 bedrooms.
My main question is this. Father knows that the court date won't be before they have to return home and has told the children that they will have to go home and wait for the results. My granddaughter is saying that she will not get on the plane and if she doesn't there is no way her brother will. I have personally tried to talk to them about this and their answer is always "You don't understand, Grandma!"
How far should he go, besides verbally ordering them, to get them on the plane?
What do you think would happen if they don't?What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)?