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Thursday, September 20, 2007

there is a break in the battle

So most of you know we have been battling my hubbys ex for custody for the last year and a half. Originally she just wanted more than 50%. But when we got to court the judge thought both parents needed equal time if they were able to do it so he ordered exactly what we had drawn up before lawyers got involved. (mind you before the judge got involved our 50% was each weekend because she had to party.)

Here is some background on the ex, she has to party each weekend. She drops her daughter off at her grandfather’s house at least once a week when she only has her child 50% of the time. She was evicted 2 times since she has not been supported by my hubby. She has a college degree but works answering phones for 9 bux an hour because she isn’t motivated to look for something that will pay more. She chooses to have cable and internet and not to try to save money for a car. She is stuck riding the bus. The mass transit in Tucson is fairly poor and very time consuming. Basically she makes some severely poor decisions.

Then there was the battle over support, he had been paying over the state ordered amount since they split. The judge couldn’t order support because she didn’t have her financials in order when we went to the hearing last year. That was only because she hired her lawyer the morning of the hearing. She said “I never worked when we were together I had his baby, I don’t see why I should work now”. Umm as a side note she never married him, so damn it there is no alimony!

So it takes another 6 months of her dragging the whole situation out before it seems to be settled. We settle on the exact agreement we presented her with a year before. in the meeting she drops a bomb and says “I am moving and I am taking Alex with me”

So needless to say we tell her we are going to fight the whole move and we want 100% custody if she moves. So we hire a consoler to do a “relocation evaluation” it only cost $4000.00. Just as we knew would happen the consoler hands down indicates, in an 11 page evaluation of both households, that it is in the best interest of Alex that she stay in Tucson with us and that we are more involved in her life and that she would benefit more being with us.

So after another month of the ex determined to fight this in court she finally meets with her lawyer and apparently it didn’t go so well. They sent a letter to our lawyer and said she is withdrawing intent to relocate and everything is status quo.
YAY it’s over until she meets another sugar daddy online and decides to move. Only 18 months and $12000.00 dollars