Currently our child custody order has my ex-wife and I sharing custody 50/50 of our 14 year old daughter.
I am extremely tired of my wife not taking care of my daughter like she should. My daughter spends three weeks with me and three weeks with her. During her three weeks with me people say to me and my current wife that my daughter looks and acts so much better when she is with us. This includes parents from her school. When she is with her mother she comes to school dirty and smelling like she hasn't taken a bath in a while. She is supposed to do two tests a week at school. When she is with me she gets two a week or more. When she goes to her mothers apartment she may get one or two tests done in the entire three weeks she is with her. So when I get her back I not only have to catch her back up to where she is supposed to be, I have to try to get her ahead so that she won't be so far behind when she comes back to my house again. I have told her mother many times now to make sure she takes care of these items when my daughter is with her. She continually ignores me on this so much that the school has finally sent out a notice that there is a problem and it needs to be fixed. She has ignored this letter and is still not getting the things done that she is supposed to do as a parent. When my daughter is with me she tells me that her mom and her new husband have financial problems and do not always have money to pay their bills. She tells me that they have had the power to their apartment cut off more than once. They have moved three times in the last three years and I feel my daughter is not being taken care of properly when she is with her mother. I would like to get full custody but don't know where I stand legally and what it would take to get full custody. What can I do? I am copletely frustrated and I am exhausted of having to get her caught up with her school work every time she comes to my house. Help !!!!!!!
I am extremely tired of my wife not taking care of my daughter like she should. My daughter spends three weeks with me and three weeks with her. During her three weeks with me people say to me and my current wife that my daughter looks and acts so much better when she is with us. This includes parents from her school. When she is with her mother she comes to school dirty and smelling like she hasn't taken a bath in a while. She is supposed to do two tests a week at school. When she is with me she gets two a week or more. When she goes to her mothers apartment she may get one or two tests done in the entire three weeks she is with her. So when I get her back I not only have to catch her back up to where she is supposed to be, I have to try to get her ahead so that she won't be so far behind when she comes back to my house again. I have told her mother many times now to make sure she takes care of these items when my daughter is with her. She continually ignores me on this so much that the school has finally sent out a notice that there is a problem and it needs to be fixed. She has ignored this letter and is still not getting the things done that she is supposed to do as a parent. When my daughter is with me she tells me that her mom and her new husband have financial problems and do not always have money to pay their bills. She tells me that they have had the power to their apartment cut off more than once. They have moved three times in the last three years and I feel my daughter is not being taken care of properly when she is with her mother. I would like to get full custody but don't know where I stand legally and what it would take to get full custody. What can I do? I am copletely frustrated and I am exhausted of having to get her caught up with her school work every time she comes to my house. Help !!!!!!!
