Divorced, father has custody and now mother wants them back.
My wife and I got married/divorced in Tennessee. We have three kids together, all boys, 9, 8, and 4. We got divorced July 2008. She signed over custody to me, the father, so I have physical custody and we have shared legal custody. In October 2008 I decided to move to Florida with my job. I had my lawyer sent her a letter stating my decision giving her time to fight it. Well, she didn't. She said it was because she didn't have the money too and I had he backed against a wall. Either way, she didn't fight it and I moved.
Now here it is May 2009. She hasn't paid any childsupport since the divorce. She has seen the boys three times because I brought them to her to visit. She kept them for a week each time, although most of it the kids we passed to my mother and other people to watch. My ex just got notified of child support here in Florida looking to collect on my behalf. Now all of the sudden she is saying she wants custody back of the boys. She is telling me I need to have the child support reduced or she wants custody of them.
Now my question is... given she is their mother, will she get custody if she takes me back to court now? The boys are doing good here in Florida, registered in school here, in baseball and karate, etc. I am also remarried, so we have a combined household of 9. My wife gets them to their doctors and therpaists and does all their work with them. They finally have stability, which their mother could never give them. Their mother is even dating a man in prison who she says she will marry when he gets out... any help would be great... what are a ftahers chances for keeping custody in Tennessee, and given I live in Florida now, would court be here or there, would I need a TN lawyer or a FL lawyer? Or do I have no chance at all if the mother wants them back?