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#1
Looking for texas father's to chat with about getting 50/50 custody
#2
Please read the postings from Texas father trying to do the right thing and let me know if anyone from Texas has phone numbers of pro bono lawyers or any loop wholes  Ican get full custody of my daughter or just how do I get the mother to leave me a lone...
#3
Asking for a friend in Texas if the custodial parent is to reside in Dallas County as long the non-custodial parent lives in Dallas County, but the custodial parent has a job offer in a different state...


Can she move without contempt of court?

Should she send a letter to non-custodial parent stating the move is for a job?

Would she be 100% responsible for transportation costs after this point?
#4
Dear Socrateaser / Step Parents
May 04, 2006, 11:57:50 AM
In Texas do step parents have the same rights as parents?
Specifically signing documents for school, etc behavior sheets, reading logs etc..

#5
Dear Socrateaser / stolen property under 100
Apr 19, 2006, 09:50:27 AM
My toddler son dropped the voice recorder I had into my daughters backpack in exchange for some candy she had in there. (he liked to use it for a play phone) My ex-wife found this voice recorder with some conversations on it from phone calls between her an my daughter. Now she refuses to give it back. I sent a request for reimbursement to her lawyer or the voice recorder back, no response.

I guess there is nothing I can do because it is under 100 dollars?

In Texas by the way.
#6
In Texas original divorce decree states that insurance must be carried by the father (me) with a deductible no more than $250.00 for each occurance.

Went to court for modifications of child support and visitation and were final November 2004, we recieved a complete set of papers including the requirment to provide insurance, the modified changes and no paragraph included about refering back to old decree for anything except claiming the child on tax returns. Her lawyer never caught the left out part about the deductible.

January 2005 child has head injury goes to the hospital, the insurance at the time had a 2500 deductible. xwife had secondary insurance which paid a portion and the remainder we split 50/50.

Her insurance company that paid the claim, is sueing me for the amount they paid- saying that I was in contempt of court for not following the orignal divorce decree.
 
Does the new modified court order overrule the original divorce decree?

Do you think I am going to have to pay for this amount that the insurance company is sueing me for?
#7
Dear Socrateaser / Dealing with the BM lawyers
Apr 01, 2006, 04:49:19 PM
In Texas... BM, the custodial parent has recently requested, that all questions, request for reimbursment, letters etc be sent to by my lawyer to her lawyer. I do not feel as if hiring a lawyer for communication purposes is necessary and have sent the such letters myself to her lawyer explaining my position on hirirng a lawyer.
What should I be concerned with in dealing with her lawyer myself?

If the BM's lawyer knows that I am representing myself, can he somehow get the judge to sign modifications or documents without my knowledge?

Anything else I should watch out or do incompliance with the representing yourself rules?

I hope this makes sense...
Thanks
#8
Soc- Thanks for your help in the past, you have helped me not to blow my cool and document and wait. I hope you can help me do the same tonight.
I see these posts and know that am lucky, but still am treated unfairly by the CP mother.
 
I am a good father and just want to talk to my daughter on the phone, though it doesnt seem very long for most, I haven't talked to my daughter in 3 days and have been beaten down by her mother by email or phone griping me out for something silly. I work and come home to my family and want to talk to my daughter and she refuses. This is in addition to many other things many many other things.

Can I write a letter to someone that might care? A rights activist, a judge, the news? A Casa worker?
Does anyone listen to your situation and make a responsible decision really in the best interest of the child?
Why does the CP get away with so much?
Really sad dad in Texas...
#9
Dear Socrateaser / rotavirus sister of daughter
Feb 04, 2006, 06:16:24 AM
I have found out that the sister of my daughter from her mothers second xhusband has the rotavirus. My daughter is with me now for the weekend until Monday night at 6. Can I ask and recommend for my daughter to stay with me till the sister is virus free? (it last s for 8 days)
My daughter would most likely end up staying with my wife if she ended up sick and her mother would not stay home with her.
Would you consider this the best interest of the child for me to let her mother know she will be staying with me for the time the other child is sick?

Could I still face contempt charges?

Thanks!

ps... we also have a 48 hours first right of refusal in our custody papers.
#10
Dear Socrateaser / Interragatories?
Feb 02, 2006, 11:15:52 AM
What is this Interragatories? What are they used for?



#11
Dear Socrateaser / general forms
Jan 16, 2006, 10:34:54 AM
I am looking for forms or examples of ways to file things myself. Is there a place to find those online?
I am specifically looking for motion to motify and motion for clarification.
Thanks!
#12
Dear Socrateaser / Clothing
Jan 11, 2006, 05:04:12 PM
I know this seams silly,
 but who is to provide the clothing for the child when the child is being returned to the CP at the time school resumes?
I have sent school clothes over at the beginning of the year and have been sending my daughter in the school uniforms that we paid for but have a really hard time getting the clothes back.
I have plenty of clothing for my daughter at my house for when she is here, but when she is going back to her mothers, I think her mother should provide and outfit for her to wear back.
I pay child support and provide clothing for our house and can't continue to replenish the supply just because her mother does not want to send it back. I also have supplied things her mother doesnt buy such as tennis shoes and coats, but want them back after a reasonable amount of time
What can be done about this?
Do you think this is petty?
#13
Dear Socrateaser / Really wanting an evaluator
Jan 10, 2006, 12:45:09 PM
I have been reading a lot on your site, the custody site and everyone talks about evaluations and I have done some research on them.
I am the Texas NCP and have recently in the past year gone back to court and won extended standard visitation.
My daughter who will be 8 in May is a lot more  verbal about her wishes to stay with my wife and I more. Things are good sometimes with the CP mother  and sometimes they are not, it is like walking on eggshells.
If things aren't that bad, right now, but have been in the past,
1. Should I request an evaluation for week on week off visitation? (We would wait until September)
2. Does the CP have to participate in the evaluation?
3. How do I go about beginning the process?
4. Do I have to have a lawyer or can I file myself?

Thank you. I tried to follow the rules. Bradley
#14
Dear Socrateaser / right of refusal
Dec 31, 2005, 06:08:52 PM
In texas we have a 48 hour right of refusal that clearly states that each party has to notify the other if we need a babysitter for the child for more than 48 hours. This basically gives the other parent a right to take custody of the child after 48 hours instead of having the child at a sitter or grandparent.
It is Christmas Break and the BM year for the first week, she drops my daughter off with her great grandmother for 3 nights and then drops her off at  her grandmothers house for 2 more nights, never asking us for right of refusal.
1. What can we file for contempt of court?
2. What do we need to do to prove it?
The child is 7.
Thanks!
#15
Living in texas I have recently gotten an offer to take higher paying job. If I don't tell the bio mother about the higher paid position, will it come back to bite me in the wallet later on?
#16
Dear Socrateaser / How can I stop the madness
Oct 25, 2005, 05:10:53 PM
Every day the x-wife calls and I try so hard to accomadate her wishes... Last night she told me that it was cold and she did not have a undershirt to go under the softball uniform for my daughter and I suggested to bring a light jacket and she replied that she did not have any new jackets in the past 2 years. I was thinking that I would be nice by bringing a light jacket for the game and in fear of my daughter going to school in no coat for school the next day, I also sent a jacket for school as well, in which I did I did this last year as well.
Never a thank you or anything.
Should I document this as well or is it a waste of my time?

Second cheerleading pictures, x-wife called and told me I did not put  the ribbon in the bag and she needed me to bring it to pictures, I explained that My wife put it in there but if it had fallen out my wife could bring it up there for her and the xwife clearly stated my new wife was not allowed at practice.

First off my wife is allowed to go anywhere she pleases... second is there anything we can do to prevent these rude calls? I really don't like that she tries to tell my wife what she can or can't do and where she can and can't go.
The ex wife is on a mission to take us back to court and have my new wife removed from certain activities and from participating in extra curricular activities. The xwife has no substancial evidence against my new wife but we are worried she could be banned from these activites and from substitutuing at my daughters school and or volunteering...?
Thanks Texas Dad
#17
Dear Socrateaser / Police report against me?
Oct 17, 2005, 02:55:20 PM
Since I was thrown out of my daughters game thought it was not my fault, I was thinking that my x wife might hold this against me in court.
Should I file a complaint against the Dallas Police Department>
IS there anything I can do because  I was falsely thrown out for a disturbance that was caused by someone else.... ?
I bought a voice recorder to your advice, is there anything else I should do? Thanks Your the best
Texas father
#18
Dear Socrateaser / What were you before?
Oct 15, 2005, 05:39:35 PM
 I don't know if this is posted somewhere, but to make myself feel better, what did you do before this website a lawyer, judge? Where do you get the answers to our questions.... ? Thanks Bradley
#19
Once again, the mother always wins....
I was kicked along with my wife out of my daughters cheerleading event today because the costodial parent, my daughters mother called 911 on a distrubance, My wife and I were confronted at the door and this estranged relative of my exwife was yelling at me. I remained calm but still was escorted out the game. My ex wife says I have no right to be at  the game because it is not my weekend.
What can I do now?
Do I have rights to be at my daughters extra curricular activities?
#20
In texas does columbus day count as a day that extends the weekend visitation to monday at 6 pm?
The children are not out of school.
The papers read : "Weekend Possession Extended by a Holiday-Except as otherwise explicitly provided in this Standard Possession Order if a weekend period of possession by insert fathers name beginds on a Thursday that is a school hilday during the regular school term or a federal, state or local holiday during the summer months when school is not is session or if the peroiod ends on or is immediately followed by a Monday that is such a holiday that weekend period of possession shall begin at teth time the child's chool is regulary dismissed on the Thursday immediately preceding the Friday Holiday  or school holiday or end at 6pm on the Modnay Holiday or at the time resumes after that school holiday.
#21
My daughter is 7 and her mother and I share custody of her.
I  believe that there is mental abuse.
My current wife and I believe we could provide a better home for her.
Her mother is constantly calling (every week or so) to gripe at me concerning my new wife or that she is going to deny me my rights as a father. etc... walking with her on the field during a homecoming game.
She threatens that I will pay because she basically hates my new wife even though she has done more for my daughter than she ever has.

Questions:We want an evaluation done to not only prove that we would provide a better home for my daughter, but to also prove that my wife is a genuinely good step parent and good person. We don't have the money to do a full custody battle, is this evaluation or home study a good choice.

Can my x-wife remove my new wife from extra curricular activities or from volunteering at her school


Can she put in the paper that I can only call between certain hours on certain days? I only call once a day.


Is there a  chance to get week on week off visitation? or something more that extended standard visitation which is what i have now? modified 11/04





Thanks struggling Dad...
#22
BM has to wait till the 19th of November to modify (we modified last year from standard to extended standard visitation last November) to have the new wife removed from certain activities and to not allow us to cut my daughters hair and for me to only call between the hours of 7-8pm.
Should my new wife get letters of reference to help our case?
Have you heard of anything like an every other year for choosing childs activities?
We would like to choose some of the activities my daughter participates in (since we don't have her every Wednesday or Every Thursday) . And for the BM to have to take the daughter to the activities we pay for and she wants to be in.
What do you suggest to do to prepare for this motion to motify?
etc... daughter goes to counseling
#23
I had added to the modified custody papers a right of refusal that would allow me to first be asked if the BM would be needing a babysitter for more than 48 hours, which of course she does not ask me and doesnt care because I can not prove it...
Now I am about to get a new job and might be gone more than 48 hours, my current wife would still be keeping my daughter at our house during this time, is this considered babysitting?
#24
Does anyone know a website that I could find a example of week on week off visitation in Texas??
I need some names of Dallas Texas Evaluators.
Anyone used Evaluators and seen a difference in your favor?
Not in your favor
#25
Custody Issues / pro se
Mar 21, 2006, 12:50:02 PM
Can I if I do not have a lawyer contact the x wife lawyer by letter?
#26
Custody Issues / When does a child not have to go
Mar 13, 2006, 04:13:01 PM
Asking for a friend..
teenage son does not want to go with father for visitation in texas, he is 15 does he have the right to say no when his father comes to the door? Will this be contempt of court. Website referral or texas code reference helpful. Thanks
#27
Hey it would be great if anyone used the texas board.
#28
I appreciate the advice on the Texas Evaluations. Does it matter that my ex=wife has custodial parent 7 years, I have had expanded visitation for the last year officially, but she has given me way more time. I would love more time with my daughter and she needs it. We do have lots of documentation, but am afraid that my ex-wife will lie. Does anyone know if the evaluator would be able to see past the lies? The ex-wife has documentation of my current wife leaving a message on my ex-wifes machine, no cussing just asking her not to tell my daughter she is evil, our documentation goes on for days. I guess I am wondering if the judge would even listen to an evaluator about week on week off visitation? Week with us week with her with an overnight wednesday in the middle? My ex-wife is just very unreasonable about everything. SHe cusses at my daughter and treats her and us like we are so below her and stupid. I just thought I could ask if anyone knows more detail about Texas evaluators and names of any good ones. Thanks!
#29
Custody Issues / texas evaluators?
Jan 03, 2006, 02:48:20 PM
Has anyone used an evaluator to prove they deserve a custodial parent change? The BM cusses at my daughter and walks a fine line of neglect and just is a crappy parent. Either my current wife or I stay home with her (my daughter when she is sick and her mother just drops her off at the babysitter. With my child support, she bought herself a new explorer. On her Christmas break , she drops her off at the babysitters house. The one activity, cheerleading that her mother did pay for, she had us kicked out of the game because i wanted to walk my daugher out on the field for homecoming. I take her to the dentist every visit, except 2 in 4 years, I get her hair cut, enroll her in most of her extra curricular activities, read to her every night she is here, my wife registers her for school, volunteers in her class and we take her to church and don't cuss at her, take her to counseling and more. WE are obviously the better choice to be custodial parent.  I was reading on the site about custody evaluations and wondered if anyone had luck using one and is it better to do it sooner or after a year of family counseling for more proof?
Thanks!
ps daughter is 7 and wants to live with us.
#30
Father's Issues / undergarments
Apr 14, 2006, 07:12:33 AM
I recently decided with my wife that my daughter needs to start wearing an undershirts with white shirts or a sports bra.
My x-wife sent me two paragraphs telling me it was not my place to make these types of decisions about my daughter and it was not my wifes job becasue she is not her mother.
She is going to try to take us back to court over decisions made with my daughter such as extra curricular activites not being paid for or enrolled in unless her personal permission is asked.  In addition to hair cuts, nail clippings, dentist appointments etc...
What do you think the judge will say... she is crazy I hope.