danewheeler
New Member
Hello Everybody,
As any father should I am hoping for the best for my daughter in this situation. The mother has refused to allow me parental rights by not allowing me on the birth certificate and threatening me when I ask about being on it by saying that she will leave with Elizabeth (my daughter) and I will never see her again. My daughter has been around the country living place to place subjected to homelessness, living with strangers (to both my daughter and her mother), Some strangers are drug abusers, ex convicts, other homeless, she has been subjected to being around drug users constantly as her mother is one, She has rarely been in school, she has lived in homeless shelters, while I had a stable home for her here. About 2 years ago her mother contacted me and gave her to me with a 6 month temp guardianship form which lasted for the first 6 months. Luckily the school has continued to accept this as has Medicaid. Either way, she has abandoned her with me since that 6 months was over. I have provided a stable home, a two income family, have kept her very well in school in so much that she is in the gifted and talented program making straight A's and with perfect attendance for two years. I have provided safety and shelter, stability, love, a family, support, met her needs and any reasonable wants, and have not kept her from her mother nor spoken ill of her mother to her in any way. The mother Marge decided to make a trip to come see her by calling me up and telling me she was going to come and I would come and pick her up at the airport, let her sleep in the girls room, etc... Basically, I had nothing to say about it in my own home. I was wrong by allowing her to run over my family like this in fear that she would take Elizabeth because no matter what she was going to anyways. Well that is what she did. She found a cult commune to live with here in TX called "The Garden of Eden" where she decided to take my daughter to. She has no respect for her schooling either. She is pulling her out of school and Quote unquote going to home school her. However, her plans and history on this Homeschooling fits very well with the principles of this cult when you study them. They believe that a child decides his/her education by deciding if it want to study Math, science, or anything at all. I.E. if the child decides it does not want to study then they don't ensure the child does. If you look up "7325 Mansfield Cardinal Rd Garden of Eden" this is where she is at. Their Facebook page has several Pics under the Chickencoop album which have a naked child running around and being held by all sorts of men who are not the Father. They are in severe violation of city code, the are making houses out of warehouse palettes, living in Tent's, my daughter told me they pee in the yard because it is good for the plants and they use Human Feces to fertilize their Garden. Furthermore, there are no laundry Machines on site so I will be washing my daughters clothes when I get to see her. Look it up yourself, this place is terrible. Her mother wants to pull her out of a stable environment for this. Either way, Monday morning I am talking with the schools teacher, counselor, and principle. On Monday afternoon I will be hiring a lawyer (preferably a shark because you cannot talk nicely to Marge the mother or be kind about what she is doing to my daughter). I will be initiating a paternity test and custody. I want full custody with supervised visitations (because of the severe flight risk). I also want to see if there is some temporary restraint to ensure she doesn't flee the state. I hope to have either me or a foster home take care of her until a judge can decide. Not only has she threatened to take her from me on several occasions she has fulfilled that threat time and time again. She also has no respect for law or the rule of law so could care less what the State tells her to do. Either way, I just want any kind of advice you can give me on this case. I know most of the time the mothers are looked at as more favorable and generally that is the better option but this is not your typical case. I just hope she does not catch wind of the court case and it catches her off guard. I have tried talking reasonably with her for years and it does no good. I have no recourse left to ensure the safety of my daughter and my parental rights. I am at my whits end here. Please, any advice would be great.
Sincerely,
Concerned Father
As any father should I am hoping for the best for my daughter in this situation. The mother has refused to allow me parental rights by not allowing me on the birth certificate and threatening me when I ask about being on it by saying that she will leave with Elizabeth (my daughter) and I will never see her again. My daughter has been around the country living place to place subjected to homelessness, living with strangers (to both my daughter and her mother), Some strangers are drug abusers, ex convicts, other homeless, she has been subjected to being around drug users constantly as her mother is one, She has rarely been in school, she has lived in homeless shelters, while I had a stable home for her here. About 2 years ago her mother contacted me and gave her to me with a 6 month temp guardianship form which lasted for the first 6 months. Luckily the school has continued to accept this as has Medicaid. Either way, she has abandoned her with me since that 6 months was over. I have provided a stable home, a two income family, have kept her very well in school in so much that she is in the gifted and talented program making straight A's and with perfect attendance for two years. I have provided safety and shelter, stability, love, a family, support, met her needs and any reasonable wants, and have not kept her from her mother nor spoken ill of her mother to her in any way. The mother Marge decided to make a trip to come see her by calling me up and telling me she was going to come and I would come and pick her up at the airport, let her sleep in the girls room, etc... Basically, I had nothing to say about it in my own home. I was wrong by allowing her to run over my family like this in fear that she would take Elizabeth because no matter what she was going to anyways. Well that is what she did. She found a cult commune to live with here in TX called "The Garden of Eden" where she decided to take my daughter to. She has no respect for her schooling either. She is pulling her out of school and Quote unquote going to home school her. However, her plans and history on this Homeschooling fits very well with the principles of this cult when you study them. They believe that a child decides his/her education by deciding if it want to study Math, science, or anything at all. I.E. if the child decides it does not want to study then they don't ensure the child does. If you look up "7325 Mansfield Cardinal Rd Garden of Eden" this is where she is at. Their Facebook page has several Pics under the Chickencoop album which have a naked child running around and being held by all sorts of men who are not the Father. They are in severe violation of city code, the are making houses out of warehouse palettes, living in Tent's, my daughter told me they pee in the yard because it is good for the plants and they use Human Feces to fertilize their Garden. Furthermore, there are no laundry Machines on site so I will be washing my daughters clothes when I get to see her. Look it up yourself, this place is terrible. Her mother wants to pull her out of a stable environment for this. Either way, Monday morning I am talking with the schools teacher, counselor, and principle. On Monday afternoon I will be hiring a lawyer (preferably a shark because you cannot talk nicely to Marge the mother or be kind about what she is doing to my daughter). I will be initiating a paternity test and custody. I want full custody with supervised visitations (because of the severe flight risk). I also want to see if there is some temporary restraint to ensure she doesn't flee the state. I hope to have either me or a foster home take care of her until a judge can decide. Not only has she threatened to take her from me on several occasions she has fulfilled that threat time and time again. She also has no respect for law or the rule of law so could care less what the State tells her to do. Either way, I just want any kind of advice you can give me on this case. I know most of the time the mothers are looked at as more favorable and generally that is the better option but this is not your typical case. I just hope she does not catch wind of the court case and it catches her off guard. I have tried talking reasonably with her for years and it does no good. I have no recourse left to ensure the safety of my daughter and my parental rights. I am at my whits end here. Please, any advice would be great.
Sincerely,
Concerned Father
