Preparing for Court Date

[stepmomandmom]

Tomorrow, our lawyer goes to court to request a hearing date for our custody/visitation battle.  We are requesting joint custody because mom has consistently denied visits including all holidays and birthdays.  Naturally, bm is aware of what we are doing and has magically "straightened her act up" over the past week.  She offered to go ahead and let daughter come over for Father's Day even though she originally said no.  My question is this:

Do judges normally take into consideration the CP's sudden efforts to straighten out and fly right as an indication that they are doing what they are supposed to, thus rendering our request and complaint of contempt useless, or do most judges realize that they are simply doing this because they know they are in trouble?  We know that once court is over and done with, mom will go back to her old ways.

[socrateaser]

>Do judges normally take into consideration the CP's sudden
>efforts to straighten out and fly right as an indication that
>they are doing what they are supposed to, thus rendering our
>request and complaint of contempt useless, or do most judges
>realize that they are simply doing this because they know they
>are in trouble?  We know that once court is over and done
>with, mom will go back to her old ways.

Depends on the quality/quantity of your proof of past misdeeds. Evidently your attorney thinks you have a case, or you wouldn't be in court, so I'm gonna give a qualified "Don't worry about it" to your question