- Jurisdiction
- Georgia
So in early June I returned from an international trip with my now fiancé. My 3 year old daughter's father knew about my trip and even supported my going. But once he saw a picture of me and my now fiancé he flipped out. He refused to return my daughter to me when I requested her return (not legitimized; I'm the sole custodial parent). He would not pick my calls or respond to messages. Police had to help me regain custody of my daughter and told him what he did was technically kidnapping.
He has now served me with paperwork to legitimize her, have full sole custody, and child support. (He has not even been financially supportive for our daughter and I have always carried the weight of that almost entirely alone.)
He tricked me to get me served and sent a text message telling him he could email me to communicate moving forward. I blocked him. And I would like a restraining order as well. But now I have friends saying blocking him looks bad on my side when it comes to court. And the restraining looks vindictive (although I was planning to get one before being served & he has been jailed previously for assaulting me).
My question is: is it okay that I blocked him? And is it okay to get the restraining order?
I have never kept him away from our daughter despite his irresponsibility financially and in other ways. But since the "kidnapping" incident I don't feel comfortable giving her to him and worried that he may not return my daughter back to me.
I need serious help please. I'm lost and very hurt. My daughter is my everything and he knows this. She lacks nothing. I know I'm a good mother but I'm so worried about this and I even want him to have supervised visitation. I never thought he would hide her away from me. Never.
He has now served me with paperwork to legitimize her, have full sole custody, and child support. (He has not even been financially supportive for our daughter and I have always carried the weight of that almost entirely alone.)
He tricked me to get me served and sent a text message telling him he could email me to communicate moving forward. I blocked him. And I would like a restraining order as well. But now I have friends saying blocking him looks bad on my side when it comes to court. And the restraining looks vindictive (although I was planning to get one before being served & he has been jailed previously for assaulting me).
My question is: is it okay that I blocked him? And is it okay to get the restraining order?
I have never kept him away from our daughter despite his irresponsibility financially and in other ways. But since the "kidnapping" incident I don't feel comfortable giving her to him and worried that he may not return my daughter back to me.
I need serious help please. I'm lost and very hurt. My daughter is my everything and he knows this. She lacks nothing. I know I'm a good mother but I'm so worried about this and I even want him to have supervised visitation. I never thought he would hide her away from me. Never.