To make a very long story short. My ex girlfriend spent the last 6 months planning to leave me of course without telling me. We've had financial difficulties as I have been feverishly trying to finish my master's degree and working 3rd shit. She wanted to move back to her home town (8) hours away, and I agreed. Little did I know she didn't have any plans on me coming. Her parents show up unexpectedly and just start moving her things....it just so happened that it was about the same time for the kids to go to vacation bible school as they do every summer......the plan was kids go to grandparents 1 week earlier and we stay behind for two more weeks and work....rent a truck and join them in two weeks.
Of course I didn't know but she had already quit her job and was just planning to leave with them. After I objected because of our previous agreement and me literally not having no time to say goodbye to my children (ages 11& 8) whom I have supported, loved, and been there for since day 1...... .....her step dad and brother go outside.....they come back in and want to give me money.
Looking back in hind site, they tried to pay me off at the last minute to stay away after I was dumbfounded to find out she was leaving with them. Her brother wrote me a check for 3 grand but I just thought he was trying to help out. Bottom line is that he canceled the check, they turned their phones off, and my only family is over 2000 miles away. We aren't married but have been together for 11 years and now my world has been turned upside down. I didn't even get to say good bye to my children and now I don't know if I'll ever see them again and it's killing me. Stupid me heard her step dad mention something about a lawyer while he was here but I had no clue...completely blind sided. My rights as I have read are so limited that its almost hopeless, especially now that I have to use what little finances I do have to relocate. If there is ANYTHING I can do or if you've been in a similar situation, please give me any advice. I miss them so much it hurts. I just don't understand how people can be so cruel. What hurts most is I was adopted in the 70's by people who were not nice. I ended up emancipated by 14. She knew that if there was 1 thing that was important to me, it was being a loving father to our kids.
Of course I didn't know but she had already quit her job and was just planning to leave with them. After I objected because of our previous agreement and me literally not having no time to say goodbye to my children (ages 11& 8) whom I have supported, loved, and been there for since day 1...... .....her step dad and brother go outside.....they come back in and want to give me money.
Looking back in hind site, they tried to pay me off at the last minute to stay away after I was dumbfounded to find out she was leaving with them. Her brother wrote me a check for 3 grand but I just thought he was trying to help out. Bottom line is that he canceled the check, they turned their phones off, and my only family is over 2000 miles away. We aren't married but have been together for 11 years and now my world has been turned upside down. I didn't even get to say good bye to my children and now I don't know if I'll ever see them again and it's killing me. Stupid me heard her step dad mention something about a lawyer while he was here but I had no clue...completely blind sided. My rights as I have read are so limited that its almost hopeless, especially now that I have to use what little finances I do have to relocate. If there is ANYTHING I can do or if you've been in a similar situation, please give me any advice. I miss them so much it hurts. I just don't understand how people can be so cruel. What hurts most is I was adopted in the 70's by people who were not nice. I ended up emancipated by 14. She knew that if there was 1 thing that was important to me, it was being a loving father to our kids.