Father desperately fighting for full custody
Here is my situation: My son is 4 years old and my ex girlfriend has full custody of him. I am being told different info from different people -- some say I'll never win because the courts are set up for women, and others say that I have a great chance at winning. Basically I have a laundry list of reasons she should not have him including but not limited to: being arrested in 2007 for stealing OxyContin from the pharmacy she worked at, attending a methadone clinic to get off those drugs, being arrested in 2006 for an undisclosed reason (her mother admitted she had been arrested, but wouldn't tell me why), inability to hold a job for more than a few months, is bi-polar and inability to stay on her medication, threatening that she'll take him away and I'll never see him again because we get in a small argument, refusal to put him in school because "it costs too much", prior documented (by her mother) drug use including Cocaine and Exstacy, not having a stable place to live, agreeing to allow her mother guardianship over my son because she cannot take care of him. There is more from where this came from. Do I have enough evidence to support my request for full custody? The only thing I can see that would be against me is that since I live out of state (GA, he lives in NH) and have only been able to afford (and time off from work) to see him every 6 months (not to mention I pay full child support and medical insurance in addition to paying my own way to be able to exercise my visitation and parental obligations). I talk with him as regularly and often as I can, it doesn't help that when I leave messages for him, I rarely get a call back. Does anyone have a similar experience they could share with me, and how you won custody??