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msg1986's picture

Sooooooo Court was yesterday and it went great! DH was granted everything he was requesting!!! Bm did show up however she showed up with her mom AND Ss6, it was good though because Bm's mom had to sit out in the lobby with Ss while Bm came into the court room alone. It was obvious that Bm didn't prepare AT ALL. She came in all smug and when the lawyer and judge started to ask her questions she kept stammering and saying "...Wait, I'm confused." It was awesome. I think she truly truly thought she was going to go in the court room and slander Dh and the judge would deny everything Dh was asking but nope nope nope, the judge kept putting it back on her as to why she couldn't do transportation and why she didn't want to split the taxes. None of her reasons made sense so the judge just made the decision. Smile

Dh was granted-
-Joint legal custody
-Visitation-Bm started trying to threaten the lawyer that she was going to demand every other weekend when we were waiting outside and the lawyer was trying to knock out agreements before we went in but our lawyer got Bm to agree to Dh still having every weekend however she wants the last weekend of the month BUT we now have 3 weeks uninterrupted in the summer for vacation-so it was a compromise but a good compromise. Hopefully bm will finally start doing things with Ss.
-Holidays every other year
-Dh gets to claim Ss every other year beginning with tax year 2015
-Bm now has to drop Ss off at our house every Friday and Dh will return him Sunday.
-Dh was able to get the judge to add in that Steps cannot be called mom/dad. We know there isn't anyway to enforce this but it's just cool because Bm tried telling Dh there isn't anything he can do about it and she tried arguing with the judge that Ss should be able to call her boyfriend Dad.
-Bm cannot call anymore-text/email only
-The judge also talked to Bm about the last name issue and they let her know it's not okay to refer to Ss as any other last name other than dh's last name. It really caught her off guard and she reminded me of a little kid being scolded when the lawyer and judge were going over that. they didn't put anything in the CO but it was cool that they reamed her on it.

All in all it was great. Bm did color the top of her head blonde so sadly there was no electric purple hair, she also wore a jacket and a t-shirt so no tattoos were visible, she didn't dress formally however she did make sure to hide a few things. I also noticed Bm has a slight lisp which was funny considering how shallow Bm is and how she bashes people for how they look etc. After court I seen her in the passenger side of her moms suv and she was obviously having a meltdown... I teased Dh that he should text her and ask "Did you have fun at court?" because that's what she screamed at him ("her words were something like 'oh this is going to fun!!!' in regards to court) during the last altercation that they had. Of course, he would never but it was still funny.

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msg1986's picture

Right? haha. It took SO much to not smile big and wave bye to her when we drove by. She got what was coming to her. Dh has always SO relaxed about everything. His ONLY request was for her to meet him 1/2 on sundays to xchng Ss. Sure Dh wanted his visitation in place but Bm didn't w/h ss for the most part, she was usually okay about holidays with the exception of christmas and halloween, Dh and I usually pay taxes so the excemption didn't mean much to us but after all the drama she has caused, Dh went after everything he KNEW that was fair.

WTF...REALLY's picture

Very good! And the no phone call part is great!! Love that the judge gave her a hard time about the last name. BM needed a smack down and she got it!

msg1986's picture

OMG I Know!!! I'm SO SO happy that we won't be seeing her stupid name pop up on his phone anymore. She can still text but that's fine. I think it's hilarious because it wasn't too long ago she was demanding via text that he better take her calls and that she would take him to court and get a court order to force him talk to her on the phone... lol. Guess that one didn't work out too well for her. haha.

msg1986's picture

Thank you!!!

Oh yeah, def. We had her sign the 8332 form there in front of the judge. She looked livid as she was signing it. lol.

Stepped in what momma's picture

This is great news for you, love hearing about when something does work out when dealing with the crazies.

msg1986's picture

Thank you!!! It's been a LONG time coming. I woke up singing that martina mcbride song "independence day" lol

msg1986's picture

I am!!! haha. It was intoxicating. I even had a beer after court. lol.

Jsmom's picture

Good job on the only calling Bio's Mom and Dad. We have that and it was not enforceable but, it did stop BM from letting the kids do it with the step dad. One reminder to BM about it early on and it never happened.

msg1986's picture

Oh yeah, that's what I told Dh, tech we can't really do anything about it but it's nice that it's in there... Kinda like a "in your face" bm. lol.

thinkthrice's picture

Could it actually be that judges are FINALLY GETTING IT??!! That many BMs are not the precious angels and pure as the wind driven snow/only concerned about the best interests of their child(ren)?

That many BMs look at their child as a golden meal ticket and couldn't care less what happens to them. That just popping them out makes them goddesses? That many BMs want to get payback at biodad via the children???!!

Glory Be!!!

Congrats! Now hopefully this is an eye opener for the BM and she won't ramp up the PAS in response to the slap down.