Family Law

immortal_angel_01 asked:


I’m a single mother with sole legal and sole physical custody of my two children. Their father lives in town and had visitation every other weekend. I have no support system or family in Boise, ID, and want to move to California to be near my family for support as I’ve fallen on hard times. He will not agree to let me move, so I will need to pursue in court. Looking for a good lawyer that will be able to help me get what is best for me and my children.

yaktur asked:


A question for law students familiar in Canadian family law.

The marriage was never an easy one, being more or less coerced by her parents when I was still inexperienced and just a teenager.

In 2005 my first wife Anna and I separated due to extreme cruelty and physical abuse on her part. We were together for almost unhappy 15 years (during which time I wanted to end the relationship, only to see her threaten violence against me) and so I was always making exceptions for her because of her mental and personal issues.

But when she threatened to stab me in my sleep with a knife and she repeatedly beat up my young son johnny with her fists (affidavits were provided by witnesses), among other horrors, that was more than I could swallow.

She eventually came out as a lesbian and wanted to move to Utah so “she can get into one of those cults and sleep with the other women” (her words). So now she can. But she’s being a royal pain to me by being so uncooperative.

The divorce is taking forever and I feel like I’m the one being crucified here.
The office of the children’s lawyer has awarded me sole custody, granting her only supervised visitation rights. Psychiatric and police reports are in the file against her as well. These visitations took 3 years to organize in court, at enormous cost to me.

Now I want to get my divorce under way. I’m with Yvonne since the winter of 2005/06. I’m her sole breadwinner for herself and her two kids, from a previous abusive marriage. We love each other, literally till death do we part. She’s my missing half, the one I’ve been looking for all of my life! Even one day apart from her leaves me feeling empty, wretched and incomplete.

We want to eventually buy a nicer house together and we’ve been looking. But I’m fearful that any kind of acquisition or increase in prosperity I may experience will have to be shared by law with my ex (Anna) until the divorce is done.

So far my ex isn’t asking for anything. She knows the custody is against her. I do not want her to pay me child support - I’ll care for the children on my own with Yvonne’s loving help. I just want my ex to be out of my life and gone on her own merry way, no strings attached.

The court has documentation of my living situation and my expenses and earnings, they know I’m the sole income for Yvonne and her kids and they know that Johnny is given to me.

I do have a lawyer. But since we live in different cities (well, I’m in a farming town, he’s in the big city far from here) he doesn’t keep in touch, doesn’t reply to e-mails and is darned hard to get on the phone.

What are my rights and what are my rights not? I really want life to continue with no anchors of the past dragging me, no crucifying either.

Leigh asked:


I have sole custody of my two children. My ex husbands visitation rights were suspended untill he attended drug treatment. I was remarried and was planning to move across country (from California) He was notified I was moving and made no legal effort to stop me. Shortly before I moved he was arrested and later convicted of attempted murder of his girlfriend. He was sentenced to 5 years. I have 2 problems #1 I live in Georgia and due to a conflict between GA and CA laws. GA says I have to file in CA (where he lives)and CA says I have to file in GA(where the violence is most likely to happen) so my restraining order is no longer in effect. And he is due to get out of prison any day.

#2 I have not and have no intention of telling him or any member of his family my location. And believe me his Dad has tried. They think I am in Atlanta which I am not. The DA child support has my address with all the do not release paper work. Can he claim I am denying him rights?
The case has me as a victim of DV so I have all the rights associated with that. But I am not sure about the address, as to who I have to notify and how to ensure it is not realeased. YES, I am hideing and I am willing to leave the country need be to protect my children from this man. He is very dangerous. But I want to stay within the law as much as I can. We have a great life now and I don’t want it to go back to the hell it was when I was married to him or when he was stalking me. He even moved 1001 feet from my home in CA and drove by my house daily after the restraining orders were put in place. The police said they could not do anything because it was “1001″ and not 1000(like they really measured.)

Gary C asked:


My ex-wife has not appeared at settlement conference, trial date and at further proceedings. The judge says he’s going to investigate further and send me his decision by mail. This is a child custody and visitation case and I’m seeking sole legal and physical custody in the state of California. What are my options from here??