Christmas Gifts bry911928: Happy New Year everyone!
Its been awhile since I have been on. Mostly due to the fact the drama my ex-wife was pulling slowed down. But I knew it was too good to be true.
I picked up my two boys 10 and 6 before Christmas and she gave me a note (didn't even talk to me) that says anything I get the boys for Chritsmas is not allowed to come back to her house. She even boxed up all the toys and clothes I had bought the boys this year with another note that says "please keep these at your place"...
Christmas morning the boys open up their gifts and such have a great time playing with things. Then after a few days it was time to take them back to their mothers. They started to load up their things and I had to tell them that they couldn't take it with them... They gave me the look of why dad... And I said to them "mom feels it would be best if you kept these things here for you to play with when you come to visit" my 10 year old says to me "but we only get to see you for one weekend a month dad??? and I want to wear my new clothes to school" So with tears in their eyes we unload and I return them to moms.
Our parenting agreement also says that she is to pay for part of the travel cost to pick them up as I live about 2 hours away. For Christmas we visited family in another town. When I dropped the boys off I asked if she had the check for transportation ready and she told me "since you picked up the boys to go somewhere else you don't get the money" I said to her, okay we will bring this up to the judge in a few weeks....
Is it just me or is she doing everything she can to hurt me....but hurting the boys??? Need some answers as my head hurts to much from all this crap!
Bry911928
Re: Christmas Gifts crazy_antisocial: maybe when you go to court you can tell the judge that she is isolating your children by keeping you and everything you buy for them away from then at her house. you could also request an alternate visitaion schedule. I believe that both parents should have JOINT-custody. Then they both know what it's like to have the children all the time and they will be more sympathetic towards the one who's getting them only on weekends. That could pose a problem if you live 2 hours away and they i would assume attend school.
but there are other options out there for visitation, talk to your lawyer or look into it.
