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Dear Socrateaser / making formal requests
Sep 03, 2009, 10:29:05 AM
I am in Pa. and my ex has been denying me visitation despite a court order. The school involved has all pertinent custody paperwork. As of the start of school she no longer had the power to keep me from seeing them. This past friday I went to pick them up at the end of the day.
She instructed the school to call her if I show up and they did. She showed up with her boyfriend, father and two other guys that work for him. The principal feared for my safety so he had me taken to remote office upstairs.
Police showed up whom are personal friends with her father and told me I wasn't taking the kids despite it being my week of custody. I left and filed for a pfa due to the hostility and safety concerns. School officials agreed to type a report of the incident for me to use in court.
I called the school to request the letter and was told I have to have my attorney send a request letter instructing what should be written in their letter. I don't want fantasy, just the facts of what happened and why principal handled the situation that way.
1. How do I formally request letter from school about the incident when I am representing myself pro se?
2. Should I forego the letter and have the principal subpoena'd ?
I hope I haven't forgotten any information. Current custody order states 50/50 week on and week off. She filed for modification hearing after child support was lowered. I filed contempt of court order which will bring up at conciliation or new business I am not sure. I am going to ask for make up time of 3 extra overnights per month, which in turn will give me majority custody. I haven't seen my kids 9 out of the last 18 months due to her contempt.
3. Is make up time something usually granted ?
4. Is my request of 3 extra overnights per month unrealistic?
She instructed the school to call her if I show up and they did. She showed up with her boyfriend, father and two other guys that work for him. The principal feared for my safety so he had me taken to remote office upstairs.
Police showed up whom are personal friends with her father and told me I wasn't taking the kids despite it being my week of custody. I left and filed for a pfa due to the hostility and safety concerns. School officials agreed to type a report of the incident for me to use in court.
I called the school to request the letter and was told I have to have my attorney send a request letter instructing what should be written in their letter. I don't want fantasy, just the facts of what happened and why principal handled the situation that way.
1. How do I formally request letter from school about the incident when I am representing myself pro se?
2. Should I forego the letter and have the principal subpoena'd ?
I hope I haven't forgotten any information. Current custody order states 50/50 week on and week off. She filed for modification hearing after child support was lowered. I filed contempt of court order which will bring up at conciliation or new business I am not sure. I am going to ask for make up time of 3 extra overnights per month, which in turn will give me majority custody. I haven't seen my kids 9 out of the last 18 months due to her contempt.
3. Is make up time something usually granted ?
4. Is my request of 3 extra overnights per month unrealistic?
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Custody Issues / parental alienation and hostility
Aug 30, 2009, 08:47:47 PM
Hello I am new to this forum from P.A. I spent over an hour typing my story and it all got deleted so I will keep this short.
Over the last year and a half I have been in an extremely toxic custody dispute where my ex has kept the children from me for 10 out of the last 18 months. 4 of these months a joint custody order was in effect. Now that school has started I went to pick them up on friday for my week of custody which would only last until sunday and she instructed the school to call her if I showed up. Now the school has copies of CO and called her anyway and when she showed up with her bf and four other guys they had to call the cops and hide me and the kids due to their hostility. Police who are personal friends of her father refused to obey the CO they had in their hands and instructed the principal not to let me take them at all if I came back on another day. I later went back to the school to talk to the principal and he told me they called the police due to feeling my safety was at risk and that the school would issue me a statement for court about the incident. I told the police it was my week of custody and he simply said "well you aren't taking them today" " your week starts on sunday" I said fine and today when i went to get them she didn't bring them and told me that my week wasn't until next sunday, admitting she knew I should have been able to get them from school. She filed for modification of CO and conciliation is on 9/9. I am pretty sure she will be ordered to turn them over to me but changes need to be made due to her parental alienation and hostility. the kids tell me her and bf fight all the time as of their last visit and friends and people around them tell me the same thing. I have to represent myself due to financial devastation and was wondering what I could do or say to help my case. thanks, any questions I can clarify will be done.
Over the last year and a half I have been in an extremely toxic custody dispute where my ex has kept the children from me for 10 out of the last 18 months. 4 of these months a joint custody order was in effect. Now that school has started I went to pick them up on friday for my week of custody which would only last until sunday and she instructed the school to call her if I showed up. Now the school has copies of CO and called her anyway and when she showed up with her bf and four other guys they had to call the cops and hide me and the kids due to their hostility. Police who are personal friends of her father refused to obey the CO they had in their hands and instructed the principal not to let me take them at all if I came back on another day. I later went back to the school to talk to the principal and he told me they called the police due to feeling my safety was at risk and that the school would issue me a statement for court about the incident. I told the police it was my week of custody and he simply said "well you aren't taking them today" " your week starts on sunday" I said fine and today when i went to get them she didn't bring them and told me that my week wasn't until next sunday, admitting she knew I should have been able to get them from school. She filed for modification of CO and conciliation is on 9/9. I am pretty sure she will be ordered to turn them over to me but changes need to be made due to her parental alienation and hostility. the kids tell me her and bf fight all the time as of their last visit and friends and people around them tell me the same thing. I have to represent myself due to financial devastation and was wondering what I could do or say to help my case. thanks, any questions I can clarify will be done.
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