Notice Divorce

[Lanny]

Got served papers yesterday. We have a shared time parenting plan in place but she’s seeking legal custody.

Should I be worried? I know the difference between parenting time and custody. I’m just baffled since she seems to want to split everything together and seems amicable.

Get a lawyer.

 

[SheedSoNasty]

Get a lawyer.

Got one. I just kinda need to vent sometimes and this is a place where I can do that without having to bother anyone at the moment. When I posted, most people I know were still asleep or getting ready for work.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

Got served papers yesterday. We have a shared time parenting plan in place but she’s seeking legal custody.

Should I be worried? I know the difference between parenting time and custody. I’m just baffled since she seems to want to split everything together and seems amicable.

Don't know anything about your (and her) financial situation, but I'd say there's a decent chance it's a money move; custody equals child support. If everything's been amicable up to this point, very well might be something her lawyer recommended (insisted on?).

Not a lawyer (obvs), but I think it's pretty clear that in your response you need to also seek custody, and then be willing to "settle" for the joint custody that you wanted all along.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Got served papers yesterday. We have a shared time parenting plan in place but she’s seeking legal custody.

Should I be worried? I know the difference between parenting time and custody. I’m just baffled since she seems to want to split everything together and seems amicable.

Every time the kids come to visit you give each of them a kitten. Then after your wife has about 12 kittens in the house report her for being a cat hoarder. The judge will give you equal custody.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Got served papers yesterday. We have a shared time parenting plan in place but she’s seeking legal custody.

Should I be worried? I know the difference between parenting time and custody. I’m just baffled since she seems to want to split everything together and seems amicable.

Seeming amicable is a trap.

Don't Trust Anyone. Stay aggressive for your rights. Do not talk with her at all, clean up all of your social media platforms. If she knows you post here, I would delete this thread or at least clean up anything she could use against you.

All communications should be through your lawyers at this point.

ZERO contact with her or anyone she is friends with until this is resolved.

 

[Lanny]

currently going through the process. Have three small children... love them more than life itself.

Been the worst six months of my life... she hasn’t filed yet but I’ve been out of the house for about five months now. Seeing my kids part time has been absolute torture.

For those of you who have gone through this, help me in any way you can. Have been thinking of posting this for a while as I’ve been a member for so damn long but haven’t had the courage until tonight now that I’m good and drunk and alone. I hate my life.

You've gotta do what you think is best. That way you have no one to blame but yourself. Weigh what others have to say but reach your own conclusion.