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| Wed, 05-31-2006 - 10:26am |
It seems that yesterday was a big day for divorces.
Mine was final yesterday too. I wish I could be happy, overjoyed, or even relieved but I'm still kind of numb over the whole thing.
Luckily, I did not end up having to give him much of anything except his personal property. The house, car and all my savings/401k I got to keep in exchange for giving up 18 months of child support. I was granted sole physical custody of our son. X will have supervised visits for at least 3 months, depending if he follows through with completing domestic violence classes, has consistant attendence of the supervised visits and the facilitor at the agency agrees that 3 months is long enough or needs to be extended. So, while the divorce is final the fighting over our son may never end. That is still what upsets me. My attorney said that my X has really made a bad reputation for himself with the court which is an advantage for me if he continues to try to use the court to get to me. They will not put up with it.
X actually refused to sign the divorce papers, tried to get out of taking the domestic violence classes, tried once again (4th time)to terminated the PPO and even wanted me to take a mental exam (because we made him get one) but the judge didn't care and entered the judgement anyway. The only thing that we thought may happen that didn't was if the Judge would put my X in jail for violations of the PPO. He didn't and my attorney didn't want to push the issue. I can deal with that for now. If he continues to contact me he will not be so lucky next time. I hate to do it and hoped at so point he would just get it but if I have to I will not hesitate.
Maybe I just need time to process all this.
Thanks for listening!
| Thu, 06-01-2006 - 11:40am |


