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« on: Feb 23, 2006, 01:41:19 PM »
I'll make this short as possible. Did not know son existed until he was 18 months old and then bio mom (she kept telling me he was not mine) hit me with AG papers for paternity along with several others.
Ok go to court with AG and get the standard EOW visitation. Then bio mom calls me to get son says she having surgery, but instead leaves the state. This goes into my summer visitation time. I file for custody. Judge says it hasn't been a year since the rendition of the first order and just chews bio mom out and that's about it.
Wait another year son is about 2-1/2 now and again mom is flitting around and I have son more than 50% of the time, except when she's mad and keeps him. In the meantime I'm recording conversations, tape recording, video taping, keeping track of everything. I have a about zillion contempts on her, but I picked out 6 which were all to do around the holidays that year when she withheld him from me. I file contempts and she goes ballastic.
I did not ask for custody I just filed contempts. She loses all but one and Judge award me extra time, puts her on 10 years probation, and has her pay my attorney fees. Bio Mom then files appeal (appeals usually don't hold much in Texas by the way) I mean what Judge is going against another Judge they have to work with all the time.
Anyway the night before court, her attorney calls my attorney and says bio mom has decided to go into the military and wants to sign over custody. Now talk about a shock! Anyway we never go to court, but hash out the agreement, with clauses in the agreement if for any reason she does not go into the military custody is not reversible. So I've had sole custody since son was 2-1/2 and he's 6 now.
Bio Mom does visit about once a month and I try to work with her. We don't always stick to the exact schedule, but as long as she's half way decent I will work with her for son's benefit.
That's the short of it. Longer version or more information email me.