LS66
Apr 16, 2012, 07:54 AM
We live in Washington state. My husband's ex-wife has twice in the past 2 years, asked us take their daughter to come live with us because she can't handle her any more. She's now 14. When we took her before, we registered her for school, took her to counseling, Dr. appts, ortho appts. etc. Before we could start the legal paperwork, the mom took her back, registered her for school and notifed Support Enforcement, after she'd been living with us for 4 months and had made great improvements with grades, etc.
This time, when she asked us to take her, my husband told her we needed to do this legally this time. They agreed on just swapping the existing parenting plan which we wrote up and she signed a joinder and we filed the paperwork ourselves. We did hire a lawyer just to make sure we hadn't missed anything. The mom made changes to the parenting plan which were all agreed upon. She was notifed of the final court date but chose not to show up and was available by phone for the commissioner if there were questions. We didn't dredge up anything from her past, the previous CPS reports, having her change schools mutiple times, moving in the middle of the night, refusing my husband the right to see her, tried to have the daughter committed as being suicidal,claimed she's got ADD and is Bi-Polar and suffers from depression. We did it this way because she was agreeing. Everything was finalized a couple weeks ago. The child has no signs of anything negative and is a quite normal 14 year old.
Now, she's contacted our attorney and let him know that she's changed her mind and feels she was cocerced into signing and wants the new order reversed.
What's the change the judge would actually do this?
This time, when she asked us to take her, my husband told her we needed to do this legally this time. They agreed on just swapping the existing parenting plan which we wrote up and she signed a joinder and we filed the paperwork ourselves. We did hire a lawyer just to make sure we hadn't missed anything. The mom made changes to the parenting plan which were all agreed upon. She was notifed of the final court date but chose not to show up and was available by phone for the commissioner if there were questions. We didn't dredge up anything from her past, the previous CPS reports, having her change schools mutiple times, moving in the middle of the night, refusing my husband the right to see her, tried to have the daughter committed as being suicidal,claimed she's got ADD and is Bi-Polar and suffers from depression. We did it this way because she was agreeing. Everything was finalized a couple weeks ago. The child has no signs of anything negative and is a quite normal 14 year old.
Now, she's contacted our attorney and let him know that she's changed her mind and feels she was cocerced into signing and wants the new order reversed.
What's the change the judge would actually do this?