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Thank you so much. I have too much time to think, and get myself worked up imagining him getting joint custody and taking my child for days at a time and losing his patience with the babe like he did with me. Then my baby not being able to even tell me what happened. You made me feel better...

Thank you for the links. But I've already left, gotten away, and now I fear the day that I give birth and he comes after me for custody. Will the man who beat me while I was pregnant be able to get custody rights to the child?

I'm going to apologize in advance that this is such a lengthy post. I'm not yet financially ready to see a lawyer. I was 17, in my first year of college (finished high school early) and working at a restaurant. One of my coworkers, who was 27, and I exchanged numbers through friends that we...