My question involves a child custody case from the State of: South Carolina.
My mother took my wife and I to court for temporary custody of my 3 year old son. To preface this, my son has spent the previous 2 months with my mother all with the understanding that it was only as long as our current situation wasn't suitable for him. What I mean by this is we were having daily knock down drag out arguments which centered around my in-laws. It all started when my in-laws attempted to have me killed (they're legitimately crazy, alcoholics and pill meth heads). My wife has told them repeatedly that I've done nothing wrong, that I've been a loving supportive husband and that our arguments were all based around drama they (her parents) were creating.
My 16 year old brother-in-law lied and said I threatened him when I didn't (I have the text messages). I texted him back from the previous night when my friendly text message was replied to with "you f+*ked up even texting me but you'll see you don't **** with crazy" The next day he came over to our home (her grandparents house) and had a pistol with him. My wife and I both had a bad feeling and she encouraged me to leave. He later told her he'd brought a gun over that day. The next day my wife's mother, stepfather, and uncle all showed up simultaneously out of the blue. They rarely ever visit despite living a few miles away... I believe they had about twice in the past year at that point but for whatever reason all three showed up together. Another bad gut feeling. I walked to a friend's house and upon returning they were gone but the brother remained. I asked him what was going on and he cussed me out and called a number. All he said was "yeah if you want" and hung up. Moments later they were all back again. I dialed 911 and explained what was going on and that my son was in the house. At the same time the stepfather was outside yelling at me to come outside like a man. The very exact moment I hung up the phone, I heard a man calling my name and heard multiple people coming down the hallway. I waited with a knife and lunged out when they reached the end of the hallway and came face to face with 3 county deputies who were there to remove the "man with a gun saying he'd kill everyone" - my mother in law called before I did and said that. I didn't even own a gun. By the grace of God I wasn't shot dead in front of my son. After that we decided it was best he stayed with my mom more often and was kept away from my wife's family. Our arguments grew more intense due to the divide between our family and her family.
Fast forward two months, due to all the drama going on I became suicidal. My mother knew this and evidently filed for temporary custody. We alleviated ourselves from our situation and were a matter of days away from going to pick up our son when we were served papers. We explained this to my mother and she insisted we go to court. At court, she brought her former employer of 15 years - her attorney. She (my mother) is also an employee of the court. She brought statements from several people riddled with lies. One of these lies is that my son said I hit my wife in front of him. I've never so much as wrestled with her aggressively let alone laid a finger on her. They painted a picture of us being terrible parents. Seeing we were beat and not having any representation on such short notice we agreed to temporary custody. The terms of this agreement were that we would only have supervised visits at my mother's discretion. No child support was ordered. Since, my mother has blocked us both from Facebook and refuses to answer calls or texts. We can't even see pictures of our son and don't even know why she's behaving this way. What can I do? Please the slightest bit of help will be greatly appreciated.
My mother took my wife and I to court for temporary custody of my 3 year old son. To preface this, my son has spent the previous 2 months with my mother all with the understanding that it was only as long as our current situation wasn't suitable for him. What I mean by this is we were having daily knock down drag out arguments which centered around my in-laws. It all started when my in-laws attempted to have me killed (they're legitimately crazy, alcoholics and pill meth heads). My wife has told them repeatedly that I've done nothing wrong, that I've been a loving supportive husband and that our arguments were all based around drama they (her parents) were creating.
My 16 year old brother-in-law lied and said I threatened him when I didn't (I have the text messages). I texted him back from the previous night when my friendly text message was replied to with "you f+*ked up even texting me but you'll see you don't **** with crazy" The next day he came over to our home (her grandparents house) and had a pistol with him. My wife and I both had a bad feeling and she encouraged me to leave. He later told her he'd brought a gun over that day. The next day my wife's mother, stepfather, and uncle all showed up simultaneously out of the blue. They rarely ever visit despite living a few miles away... I believe they had about twice in the past year at that point but for whatever reason all three showed up together. Another bad gut feeling. I walked to a friend's house and upon returning they were gone but the brother remained. I asked him what was going on and he cussed me out and called a number. All he said was "yeah if you want" and hung up. Moments later they were all back again. I dialed 911 and explained what was going on and that my son was in the house. At the same time the stepfather was outside yelling at me to come outside like a man. The very exact moment I hung up the phone, I heard a man calling my name and heard multiple people coming down the hallway. I waited with a knife and lunged out when they reached the end of the hallway and came face to face with 3 county deputies who were there to remove the "man with a gun saying he'd kill everyone" - my mother in law called before I did and said that. I didn't even own a gun. By the grace of God I wasn't shot dead in front of my son. After that we decided it was best he stayed with my mom more often and was kept away from my wife's family. Our arguments grew more intense due to the divide between our family and her family.
Fast forward two months, due to all the drama going on I became suicidal. My mother knew this and evidently filed for temporary custody. We alleviated ourselves from our situation and were a matter of days away from going to pick up our son when we were served papers. We explained this to my mother and she insisted we go to court. At court, she brought her former employer of 15 years - her attorney. She (my mother) is also an employee of the court. She brought statements from several people riddled with lies. One of these lies is that my son said I hit my wife in front of him. I've never so much as wrestled with her aggressively let alone laid a finger on her. They painted a picture of us being terrible parents. Seeing we were beat and not having any representation on such short notice we agreed to temporary custody. The terms of this agreement were that we would only have supervised visits at my mother's discretion. No child support was ordered. Since, my mother has blocked us both from Facebook and refuses to answer calls or texts. We can't even see pictures of our son and don't even know why she's behaving this way. What can I do? Please the slightest bit of help will be greatly appreciated.
My Mother Took My Son
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