How would you feel if your ex started going on and on about how good her new boyfriend and his child are for your daughter? Would you find that the least bit relevant?
The reality is that you are in a new, relatively untested, relationship. You need to build your case solidly on what YOU can provide for your daughter. Not what some 8-year-old can. Your new girlfriend and her daughter are not party to your separation from your ex. Leave them out of things.
It might be a different story if you and D3 had known them for years, and you were legally married. Then a judge might be more convinced that this was a new stable part of your lives. But what you have is a relationship less than a year along, that looks to all outsiders like a mere rebound.
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