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Continuation of this thread: Motion to Modify Child Custody I am not sure why it was locked and was not given a reason, so I will respond to the latest post here. I am only doing this because my son, when I asked him how his weekend went with his father (who hasn't been talking about what he...

It is thoroughly disgusting. I have been put into "check" and thus forced to make a move and doing the best that I know how to in the midst of my current life situation and the mental faculties and resources I have to utilize. Often in life, we fail to recognize the optimal move until we...

The prospect of being taken away from me is certainly unsettling, and I will only introduce information to him as is necessary when a court makes their decision. I have done so much for my ex-husband, it is truly disgusting. Helping him out of tens of thousands of credit card debt, taking my...

Thank you, I have requested in my motion to modify that neither party use corporal punishment to discipline our son. I can sense that my son fears his father, and there is a fine line between that and respecting a parent. There is a reason that he has never requested more time with his dad, and...

That seems like a good goal for us, thank you for the suggestion! My concern is actually just the opposite, that he doesn't see his mother father together at all. He never sees us bickering anymore because his girlfriend has controlled our communication so heavily and won't allow for it...

I do not want to be speaking to a girlfriend of my ex-husband regarding the child that we brought into this world. I myself can't imagine allowing a significant other to speak about my child to another parent, I care too much about my son and want to assume an active role in his life. Before...

Thank you, that makes a lot of sense and I will certainly keep that in mind! Very true, and I can appreciate his perspective. He often complains about going close to a week without seeing his son. However, he can attend his son's karate practice every Tuesday or Thursday evening with a...

I agree and do not wish to critique his father's parenting technique, I do not wish to spend time in court at all. These attorney fees are depleting funds that my son could have benefited from. Unfortunately, my son and I were served by a police officer with this motion to modify on an otherwise...

Saying that it is "my son," is accurate, and saying that it is "our son," is also accurate, I opted for the former, a merely semantic decision. I do not micromanage what the father does, I am trying to determine what a judge would need me to present to reject his motion to modify, only because...

Shouldn't the burden of proof be on my ex-husband, and not on me? I am fighting for the status quo, and nothing is currently broken in my child's life, so I feel as though there is nothing to fix. What significant change in circumstances that he is claiming has anything to do with my son? My...

Every dollar spent communicating with my attorney is a dollar out of me and my son's pocket so I am trying to understand the situation as thoroughly as possible independently.

At the turn of the New Year, I wanted to confirm that my ex-husband wouldn't be modifying our son's schedule, and would just be looking at holidays and incorporating a meeting place for handoffs into our motion to modify. I told him that I was going on vacation but would happily save that money...

At this point that is all I feel I can do. My attorney, after hearing my side of the story, felt that I should file my own motion to modify. I just worry that his father and I are wasting thousands of dollars but nor nothing productive to come of it. What is the general way that things progress...

Hi all, this is my first forum post! I reside in Maine and my ex-husband has filed a motion to modify our child current custody court order. He currently has my son every Wednesday night and every other Friday and Saturday night, and we communicate to establish a schedule for holidays. He has...