My 4-year-old child has been taken away by my ex-wife by filing a false protection order and claiming I am abusing my son. The court did not require any proof and took my child away. The court based its ruling on a diary which I wrote over 2 years ago when my child was taken away for the first time, just for a few days. I am very close with my son and I have spent more time with him than his mother has and he is the center of my life. So when he was taken away and I had no idea when I would ever see him again 2 years ago, I almost lost it. I had states of extreme despair and I felt like I was losing my mental faculties through the pain I was experiencing.
In my notes, I wrote I had fantasies of suicide, was contemplating murder and violence and abduction and revenge. My therapist back then asked me to write as a therapeutic expression and she thought that the feelings and fantasies I experienced were normal for a person whose child gets taken which is the most traumatic event a parent can experience.
My ex's lawyer however said that based on these 2-year-old writings I am making death threats and I am a dangerous person and my child should be taken away from me and the court agreed. I had no idea that people can be punished for feelings they experience. Ironically the court did not ask where those feelings came from either.
I filed a motion for revision but the judge did not see anything wrong with the ruling either. Or with the fact that my ex, the opposing party, being a mental health counselor diagnosed me and the court accepted her diagnosis and ordered me accordingly.
am interested to hear what typically the court thinks a proper emotional response would be for a father to have their child taken away.
I filed an appeal but I don't have much hope for that either because I thought my motion for revision was brilliant and I can't spend $10000 for a lawyer for the appeal.
Thank you
In my notes, I wrote I had fantasies of suicide, was contemplating murder and violence and abduction and revenge. My therapist back then asked me to write as a therapeutic expression and she thought that the feelings and fantasies I experienced were normal for a person whose child gets taken which is the most traumatic event a parent can experience.
My ex's lawyer however said that based on these 2-year-old writings I am making death threats and I am a dangerous person and my child should be taken away from me and the court agreed. I had no idea that people can be punished for feelings they experience. Ironically the court did not ask where those feelings came from either.
I filed a motion for revision but the judge did not see anything wrong with the ruling either. Or with the fact that my ex, the opposing party, being a mental health counselor diagnosed me and the court accepted her diagnosis and ordered me accordingly.
am interested to hear what typically the court thinks a proper emotional response would be for a father to have their child taken away.
I filed an appeal but I don't have much hope for that either because I thought my motion for revision was brilliant and I can't spend $10000 for a lawyer for the appeal.
Thank you