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My ex shot herself in the foot with her own ignorance of the law. As a recently arrived immigrant her English was bad and she got some really bad legal advice from strangers who were her Facebook friends. She actually submitted her conversation with Facebook friends as part of the court documents! LOL..During one our arguments she ‘secretly’ recorded it, thinking it would ‘prove’ I’m an unfit/dangerous father.This argument was about getting my son to eat his lunch and to stop spoiling him. He was yelling that he didn’t want to finish his lunch, while I told him he can’t watch TV/play with his toys until he finishes it. She heard him crying/yelling so she told me that I’m making him afraid and cry. And that she just called the authorities to investigate our family. I was incredulous, I asked her did you call Child Protective Services? Do you realize WHAT they would do? They may turn everything upside down and find out a little fault(ie messy house, etc.,) or no fault, but we’ll need to hire a lawyer. She said I don’t care, I don’t have anything to hide.Since I didn’t know when she called and when they may show up. I told my son (7 yrs old), “The police may come to our house and ask you questions, you’re not in trouble, just tell them the truth.” - - the reason I said “police” was that a 7 yr boy is not going to know what “CPS” is, but he knows “police”’ as a legal authority figure that he doesn’t need to be afraid of. My son turns to his mom and ask “ Mommy, why did you call the police?” He’s getting upset and starting to cry. He keeps asking. She tells him, “They’re just going to talk to our family, you don’t need to be afraid”. But now he’s crying, so I calm him down by reassuring him, “Don’t worry about, it everything is OK, just remember to answer the questions and tell the truth”. etc..Anyway this is ALL in HER RECORDING.Fast forward 2 months later at the Custody Hearing, she claims abuse/restraining orders/full custody, etc… She wants to enter into evidence the recording, so the judge tells my lawyer to go listening to to the recording. He does, and he told the judge he doesn’t object to it as evidence. So the judge allows the court to listen to it, most of it is not in English (my ex doesn’t speak English well, so she’s speaking in Vietnamese). BUT what the court hear in English is my son asking mom why she called the “police” and me reassuring him that everything is OK and to tell the truth if he is asked.The judge turns to my wife and told her that, she can’t understand most of the recording, since my ex didn’t provide an official translation. BUT from the part she heard(in English), I(the father) comes off as very supportive and honest, telling our son to tell the truth. She also told the court that, CPS did send the court a message/response that acknowledge they look into my ex allegation. But they found no basis to even open an investigation.That went for the rest of her charges, the judge told her that while I seems to be a bad husband (ie neglectful), I was a good father from what she heard (recording) and read as evidence. The judge even admonished her on her refusal to turn the kids over to me after receiving her (judge) emergency custody order and instead waiting for the trial date to let me see my kids. The judge added, “I see you filed the Abuse charges AFTER you received the Emergency Custody Order.”At the end, all ‘charges’ were thrown out and her (ex wife) request for full custody was rejected and the court gave us 50/50.Note: My wife got really bad legal advice from non-legal entities. She was under the impression, that if she claims abuse, the court system will side with her. So she just needed to provide a good compelling story. If she talked with a real lawyer (ie paid one), they would ask her if she had proof.In the end, it’s a bittersweet victory, because the kids suffer AND I was out 1000’s of dollars that could have been spent on kids classes/sports. All because she got bad advice on how divorce/child custody works. If she went to a lawyer instead of legal advice from the internet, we could have done everything A LOT cheaper and less stress on the kids.Note: Edit for clarity/grammar based on feedback & suggestions.

After a very vicious and brutal divorce/child custody battle, a judge ordered my ex-wife and me to exchange the children for visitations at the police station - due to the hostility between us.Well, just before my weekend to pick up my sons one week, I received a call from the sheriff's office. They asked me to bring the boys to them for questioning after I got them from my ex, and not to mention it to her at all.It seems she was recorded on police surveillance allowing my young sons - ages 7 and 5 - to go with her to a man's house. The twist was that the man was a known pedophile and drug dealer they were watching and building a case on.I did as they requested. When questioned, the boys confirmed that they did indeed go to the man's house pret-ty regularly. So the officer told me that as of that moment I had emergency custody of my kids, and my ex was to have no contact with them under any circumstance.They then contacted her and informed her that her “friend" was now wanted for violating a sex offence parole, and that she (ex-wife) had a warrant as well. However, her warrant would remain inactive - as long as she cooperated in their investigation and did not try to contact me or the boys.Being the rocket scientist my ex-wife always believed herself to be, she actually stormed down to the police department demanding her kids, and cursing the officers as they tried to explain the conditions to her once again! So, I received another call, informing me she was arrested and I should get a lawyer for full custody! Justice was served!

My mom and stepdad are currently fighting over custody over my 15 year old sister and 7 year old brother (i’m 18 so even if he was my biological dad I still wouldn’t be in it for custody). My stepdad has always been a narcissistic, manipulative, drunk bastard. He’s extremely homophobic (he tried to kick me out of the house more then 4 times because I’m attracted to women) and violent. He married my mom when I was four and I can remember being hit all of my life. Once he pushed my mom and she fell and broke her spine. Now, my stepdad’s mother is wealthy. And she’s an “intervening party” in the custody case. If this legal case was a triangle with my mom, my stepdad, and his mother are in a triangle, his mother is paying for two sides of the triangle because she’s paying for her own legal fees as an intervening party AND she’s paying for my stepdad’s legal fees.My stepdad got emergency custody because he stole my sister’s phone, went through it, and found text evidence of my mother asking my sister to get her pills together so she could take them. My mom has severe ADHD and takes prescription adderall every day so the emergency custody order was granted because my mother was having my sister “handle her narcotics”. The police came and took my siblings away from their home crying on January 29th and as of the day I’m writing this (Feb. 25th), they are allowed zero (0) contact with their mother whatsoever. My sister snapchats me almost every day saying she wants to come home.Okay, on to the ridiculous things they said in the first hearing: they made my mother look like a complete drug addict AND they made my sister out to be a sex-crazed party girl. My 15 year old sister’s FATHER and GRANDMOTHER called her a whore in front of a courtroom full of people, the judge, and God himself. In their lawyer’s opening statement they said “It’s too late for [my sister’s name] but what about [my brother’s name]?”The most ridiculous part about this: my stepfather is a non functioning alcoholic who actually lives with his parents. The only thing that makes him a better parent in the court’s eye is that he has a job. My mother just moved to a completely new city because she had no support whatsoever after my stepdad moved TO AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT STATE for work without telling anyone that it was permanent and because he refused to pay the bills on the house. She has not had a chance to get a job just yet. She also has not had the chance to defend herself in court. She was absent from the ex parte (i think that’s how it’s spelled) hearing and the defense only got to speak for 30 minutes out of the whole 5 1/2 hour hearing!!!!!! My stepfather and his mother had all kinds of bullshit “expert witnesses” (none of which were subpoenaed by the way. which means that they were being PAID to be there) that wasted time so my mother couldn't defend herself.He still has temporary custody of the kids. But that’s only because they lied to the judge’s face and perverted justice. He told the judge he wasn’t working until May but five days after the hearing he was back at his parents house going back to work. There’s a three day trial set for the end of April but my mother still can’t speak to her children. The justice system should be on my mother’s side and it’s so heartbreaking and discouraging to see with my own eyes that money buys justice. He and his mother have completely ruined their relationship with the kids and everyone else. And for what?? to hurt my mom???? They have no case, they’re hurting the kids, and they’re BURYING my mother in legal fees. The kids will never forgive what their father and grandmother because what they’re doing to them is unforgivable.