Need help fast!!

[Nextmother]

Hey everyone. I live in NC and one of my girlfriends called  me tonight and told me that she has left her husband. The marriage has  been  rocky for a long time, and she finally had  enough of the emotional and verbal  abuse and decided it was time to end it.

She  was packing her things after he left for work  this morning,  but he came back and caught her. To make along  story  short, the police were called and her husband was taken to jail for a couple of hours.

Once he got out, he immediately went to the school and picked up their kids to try and force her to stay. She left anyway, and left the kids in his care for now because she did not want to  have them  witness a big fight  between her and her husband, but there is no way she  can leave them with him for more than a  week or so. He loves his kids, but he has no patience with them at all and a very hot temper. He also is into drinking and smoking pot.

We know that we need to get something into the courts immediately, but everything we have been able to find online is seperation agreements that have to  be signed by both parties. She wants physical custody with him having visits as often as possible. Their house is being repoed and he will be living with his mother by the end of the month, so she is okay with the kids spending time with him there.

Can someone point me in the proper direction for temporary custody papers that she can file in the morning? We talked to the courthouse and they said they had no forms that could be filled out and that she HAD to get a lawyer. We know that is not true, and she has no money to get one anyway.

Any help you can offer will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!!

Next

[Peanutsdad]

So long as he has the kids in his possession,, shes in for a custody fight.

Leaving the house without the kids was a bad move. In essense, shes "abandoned" them. She is saying, the kids are ok where they are.



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