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Question: What would you do in this situation (long)? I'm sorry this is so long. My bro has been going through a horrible divorce for over a year. This woman has always treated him horribly the only reason they married was he got her pregnant (they were basically sex buddies). He took on the responsibility of her other 3 children 100% (their bio father went to prison). At one point because she refused to work they had to sell their house and live with my parents and we all saw how h was not allowed to even be out of the room she was in. She degraded him all the time was rude to everyone. Even his friends on the police force used to joke about taking her out and shooting her. To tell you the kind of woman she is while living with my parents my mom threw away some of the kids coloring papers they left all over the floor (she never meade them clean up my bro did) she said basically "we will show her and started throwing away my parents stuff, including tax returns and bank receipts! He finally couldn't take it anymore and told her he was leaving agreed to pay $400 in support for his child until divorce was final and support order reached. He gave her 45 days notice before moving and allowed her and her older children to keep their cell phones on his acct and paid off her SUV with his share of savings (so he could be sure his daughter was properly taken care of. He also went over at 6 am each morning she was at work in order to get his daughter and her kids off to school (really this was for her son who has a mild form of autism but she completely coddles and will often throw fits refusing to go to school). Well when he left she started following him everywhere. harassing his friends. She created an online acct to the cell phone blocked changed the password and blocked him out of the acct and changed billing address then then put calling restrictions on phone and began using parental locator service to track him. SHe got all the bills and was calling and harassing all his friends, would follow him at work and around town. She came into his apartment unannounced and hit him when he told her to leave. He has had to get 2 restraining orders against her and after that she refused to allow him to see his daughter by not contacting the third party. over the year she has been charged with 5 crimes of domestic violence, stalking, disturbing the peace and child custody interference (kidnapping). SHe removed my niece from state 3 times without court or my bros bros permission. As well as moved to a new house without notification. She currently wears an ankle monitor and has court ordered counseling. She filed a counter suit for divorce and has refused to attend the parental classes as ordered for divorce proceedings. She has no money to fix broken windows or buy my niece clothes but she can pay bail and court fines in cash, take 3 weeks off work to take my niece out of state and hire a lawyer. The divorce is finally almost done and my bro might actually be able to see his daughter again however she put a clause in the custody that states if he is gone after 6 pm or more then 4 hours on weekend my niece has to returned. this does not effect her since she is off work before 6 and does not work weekends. My bro on other had works until at least 8 pm and usually on the weekend. there are many family members who can take care of my niece at my bros house so she can be with him his allotted weeks yet she refuses. This is just we feel to mess with his visitation. Also there are some bills amounting to over 2,000 that she wants him to take because they are in "his name". One is the phone bill she and her kids ran up to over $850 that he could not cancel or even use because of her fraud and the second a bank acct that has only her money in it (he did not close because he did not want to be accused of "messing with her money", she opened another acct, removed his contact number from the joint acct and ran it over $1,000 in the negative. when he went to the bank and found this out they said they had talked to her and the person stated she said she didn't care and refused to give them my bro's contact information. In the meantime he has met a wonderful woman and wants to get on with his life and be able to see his daughter. But unless he agrees to eat the money he is not responsible for and play her game with the custody she has vowed to drag it out forever. Even her lawyer when he talks to my bro is sick of it and thinks it's ridiculous. (of course she lied to him about all the charges it was only after he talked to my bro for the first time did he find out about the criminal restraining order) Would you just take these hits and sign the papers to get it done? An attorney already advised him our state is pro-mom even with everything she has done he would not get primary custody especially since my niece has half brothers and a half sister living with the mom.

Answer: Unfortunately, yes. Your brother is essentially paying for the mistake of getting involved with an unstable, insecure person. My husband's wife had her emotional issues, and my husband gave up EVERYTHING to keep custody of his son. His son was more more important to him than the car, the house, etc.--and that's as it should be. She paid no child support, yet he and to pay spousal support. Even after she remarried, she continued to take the money. Getting the government to stop those automatic payments in a timely manner is virtually impossible, and traditionally the laws favor the woman. My husband has been divorced from her for almost a decade, and he's stuck with paying her income taxes because she filed bankruptcy. There's more, too--she secretly took out credit cards and forged his name. He had to pay off that debt, too. I say all of that to tell you that your brother is learning a very valuable lesson. No, it's not fair, but that's the way it is. She will love it if you all protest and throw a fit because she knows she's getting to you and in control. Don't give her that satisfaction. Tell you brother to pick one or two of the issues he is most adamant about, and fight for those in the divorce settlement. All the other stuff is primarily drama and will only stress him out.

 


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