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Already thinking about all of you..
I hope that you get all that you want..
Happy
" make sure you tell the people you love most EVERYDAY.. Its important not only for them to know but for you to tell.. Life is to short to be miserable..
Good Luck!!!
Wishing you good luck!!!
My fingers are crossed!!!
I'm sure a judge will see that this is a bogus case. My thoughts are with you and bf, and ss! Good luck today Nymh.
Please give us an update later!
Hugs,
Candice
Best of Luck
What a day to be in court Nymph...the dreaded 13th?? sorry some sad humor but only good thoughts go with it. i pray bf gets a good judge on the bench today who will see this bm for what she is. Best Wishes to you and yours
a loony canuck
Hooray!
Case dismissed! BF said that BM didn't even have a lawyer - she usually doesn't. She BS'ed on and on for a while and the judge was basically like...ok whatever. He dismissed it since there were no solid grounds, BM couldn't even define what time it happened or what county she was in WHEN it happened! The judge gave her a lecture on how this is just a failure to communicate between two people, and how this was an example of someone abusing the system to get back at someone who has hurt them, and the only person hurting in all this is the son, who she is putting in the middle and said she needed to think long and hard about that before she did anything else trying to hurt BF.
PHEW I'm so happy. BF's lawyer also talked to the judge (purposefully in earshot of BM) and told him that we also have two cases pending for phone harrassment, one case for contempt of court, one for child support, one to change custody over to BF, a restraining order hearing for me, and she might soon be under investigation by DCS. BM was flabbergasted! I think she got the picture! She hasn't called BF since court this morning, a pleasant suprise. Let's just hope she realizes now that we mean business and this shit has got to stop or she's going to be the one who's life is turned upside down.
Judge also split the court costs evenly between both of them, which BM tried to bitch about. He just told her she should have thought about the cost before she brought upon the charges!
Hooray!!!
*~So sayeth Nymh~*
Awesome!
I'm very happy for you and bf! Yeah, no one likes their time to be wasted, and the judge is right, she is just abusing the court system to punish bf. Congrat's!!!!
It's a good thing that the judge split the court costs, and made her pony up for the bill. When they are forced to pay out of pocket expenses, usually, it does make them think twice about creating bogus charges. In our one time experience of holding bm in contempt of court, the judge made her pay 2/3rds of our attorney's fees. That was the last time she denied visitations.
Glad things worked out! It will be a great day for you both!!
Have a wonderful weekend!
Candice
Doing the happy dance just for you!
Congrats on a great day!
~ Anne ~
Nothing can come of nothing.
(Shakespeare, King Lear)
Sounds good!
Our Court hearing was canceled today... Must be in the water.
Man has the intelligence to change his life,
Sometimes, he just fails to use it...
YAY!
I'm so happy to hear that Nymh.. so what happens next. You have the change of custody order to give BF more time with SS right.. so when do you get SS next???
Stepup
RE:
The weekend of Easter would have been BF's normal weekend to get SS, so it'll be not this weekend but the next when he has his regular weekend-long visitation. Let's just hope BM doesn't pull something else out of her ass between now and then to keep SS from BF!
*~So sayeth Nymh~*
Wee haw..
Finally something good happened.. I am happy for you.. Both.. Maybe she is getting the picture.. To bad it may end up that she looses her son for immature behavior.. O'well time to grow up...
Happy
" make sure you tell the people you love most EVERYDAY.. Its important not only for them to know but for you to tell.. Life is to short to be miserable..
That's great news!
It's so awesome to hear someone finally get the good end of the stick. It seems like the usual court response is, "She's the birth mother, she must be right." Glad to see that at least one judge has his head screwed on straight. Awesome on the split on court costs, too. I think money is really the only way to stop these vindictive women from continuing their hate campaigns against their ex-husbands. Hit 'em in the pocketbook when they're clearly just being vindictive and maybe they'll think twice about bringing it back to court.