Hello there,
I am posting on behalf of a friend who is going through a fairly messy custody battle with his ex.
when the couple first divorced, custody was granted to the mother. The court ordered that after "x" amount of years of schooling, custody would be given to the father. This past summer was when "x" amount of years was finally reached. Unfortunately for him, getting custody of his son was not just a simple matter of going to pick him up.
Court proceedings have been going back and forth since August with the original order, from all appearences, being ignored by the courts of today. This was a particularly bitter pill to swallow for the parties on the fathers side since the mother turned out to be a less than ideal parent.
One of the results of the fathers/mothers lawyers legal wrangling was a Bilateral Assessment of both households. Ironically, this was requested by the mother.
After an extremely stressful assessment process and an agonizing 1 month wait, the assessor submitted his report that was heavily in favor of immediate custody being granted to the father. In his report, he said something to the affect that sole custody should be granted immediately or risk harming the child psychologically.
Naively, I thought that would be the straw that broke the camels back, but unfortunately, that is not the case. The mother is considering getting a second opinion done. This is where the irony plays in since she requested the first one. The first assessor had done many, many assessments and has been in the psychiatric field for decades. One would think that if he can't provide an accurate assessment, who can?
I think all parties on the fathers side are wondering when the courts will step in and say, "enough is enough".
Does anybody have any advice or know of any legal precedence that could help us out in this situation?
No longer naive,
Hugh Bradley
I am posting on behalf of a friend who is going through a fairly messy custody battle with his ex.
when the couple first divorced, custody was granted to the mother. The court ordered that after "x" amount of years of schooling, custody would be given to the father. This past summer was when "x" amount of years was finally reached. Unfortunately for him, getting custody of his son was not just a simple matter of going to pick him up.
Court proceedings have been going back and forth since August with the original order, from all appearences, being ignored by the courts of today. This was a particularly bitter pill to swallow for the parties on the fathers side since the mother turned out to be a less than ideal parent.
One of the results of the fathers/mothers lawyers legal wrangling was a Bilateral Assessment of both households. Ironically, this was requested by the mother.
After an extremely stressful assessment process and an agonizing 1 month wait, the assessor submitted his report that was heavily in favor of immediate custody being granted to the father. In his report, he said something to the affect that sole custody should be granted immediately or risk harming the child psychologically.
Naively, I thought that would be the straw that broke the camels back, but unfortunately, that is not the case. The mother is considering getting a second opinion done. This is where the irony plays in since she requested the first one. The first assessor had done many, many assessments and has been in the psychiatric field for decades. One would think that if he can't provide an accurate assessment, who can?
I think all parties on the fathers side are wondering when the courts will step in and say, "enough is enough".
Does anybody have any advice or know of any legal precedence that could help us out in this situation?
No longer naive,
Hugh Bradley
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