A few weeks ago my wife and I were on our way to Cleveland to spend a weekend together while my mother-in-law watched our kids (2.5 yrs., 1.5 yrs., 3 mos.). However that was not my wife's intentions. We got to Cleveland and she "went shopping." What my family didn't realize was that she had no intentions of coming back. I was out of town the next 2 weeks for job training. I e-mailed her almost every day because that's the way she told me to communicate with her. On July 30, she filed for custody of our 3 children claiming that I was not a financially supportive father. On August 14, she filed for divorce claiming that the marriage was "irretrievably broken." She claims to have suggested marriage counseling in the past, which is false. In the divorce papers she is waiving counseling. I tried to go back to work things out when I got done with my job training. I was there for 2 days before she left with the kids again and never told me where she was going. I feel like I have plenty of solid evidence to have both cases thrown out. I am just scared because my family believes in working things out and it seems like her family believes in taking the easy road out even though they consider themselves hard workers. I am even more afraid of losing my children. I don't want to see them every other weekend or whatever the case might be. I love my children too much to put them through these rough times that my wife and I are going through.
You've had 2 motions filed in the last month....You needed an attorney on July 31. If you sit back and be passive, it guarantees you will be a visitor as a parent. GET AN ATTORNEY!!!
"I feel like I have plenty of solid evidence to have both cases thrown out."
That's unjustified optimism. Under no-fault, there's no fighting divorce - if one of you requests it, it is eventually granted. The custody can be contested but the longer you go without answering that, the more difficult it will be for you.
She's used the element of surprise to her advantage here. Things are going to be uphill for you.
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