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thank you.  the more signatures we can get the better.  this website change.org can really make a difference.

Please sign this petition at the change.org website.  We need all the support we can get!   

http://www.change.org/petitions/equal-rights-for-fathers (http://www.change.org/petitions/equal-rights-for-fathers)

No, actually, there is not anything in writing of when I get her.  They are saying that I have to go through supervised visitation now temporarily, can you believe that?  I've taken care of my daughter myself all of this time, I've potty trained her, helped her to become less anti-social and apprehensive, and now her behavior is already regressing from being around her mom again (urinary accidents, separation anxiety, etc.).  Her mother took her to Mexico for four months without my consent and I had to open a case with the Center for Missing and Exploited Children.  While she was down there I missed her first birthday and first steps.  Now that so many years have passed the courts just brush off that incident.  They also brush off the fact that she violated two court orders stating for our daughter to have zero contact with her boyfriend who molested her.

Lake County Court in Indiana just plucked my daughter out of her stable environment and temporarily placed her with mom.  Here is the story:  The court ordered counseling sessions with mom and daughter to determine if unsupervised visitations should occur.  The counselor determined that supervised visitations only between mom and daughter.  The mother then voluntarily refused to schedule visitations and did not see her daughter for over a year.  Her attorney, the Domestic Relations Bureau, and the GAL had all ganged up on me saying that during this time I "obstructed" mother's visitation rights even though I was only adhering to the court order which stated we were to follow the counselor's recommendation.  They are speculating that my child's negative perspective towards her mother is due to Parental Alienation Syndrome, but they refuse to acknowledge the abusive environment her mother had placed her in to foster that type of response in the first place.  I don't even have a way of contacting my daughter (which is against the Indiana State Guidelines to Co-Parenting).  I need help in devising a strategy to get my daughter back. 

Emergency because they feel I am "obstructing" her right to visitation with her daughter.  But I really haven't.  Yes, it's tomorrow and I agree to go from supervised and then unsupervised and then try to get custody within like a month's time is ludicrous.

The other side asked for emergency custody change.

Our daughter is four years old and is scheduled to start attending the same pre-school that she did last year.

The problem with setting a time before bed to call her is that her mom tries to make it appear to the court that she is terrified of me, so that is why I won't call her phone, unless the court orders her to do so.

I have had provisional custody of our daughter for two years.  Now the final hearing is coming up tomorrow and it seems as if they are trying to reverse custody through mistruths and hearsay.  The mother of my daughter refused to see her under supervised conditions for a year (which was mandated by a court order stating that we follow the counselor's recommendation) and now her attorney, the GAL, and the Domestic Relations Bureau have all accused me of "obstructing" her visitation rights.  I have never violated any Court Order.  When they pushed for unsupervised visitation with the mother, the Domestic Relations Bureau kept trying to find anything they could use to make it appear as if I was interfering with the visitations (i.e. staying too long at the dropoff because my daughter was crying and I was trying to calm her, even though they said it was okay for me to stay with her until the mother arrived).  The mother does legal translations through the Lake County Bar Association which is why they are pulling strings for her.  I was even told that my daughter could not have a cell phone in which I could contact her while she spent the weekend at her mother's, which is against the Indiana State Guideline to Parenting.  My attorney seems to be going with the flow, which is unfortunate considering I gave him a $6000 retainer.  I need to know what I should do because the hearing is tomorrow.