Tuesday, January 03, 2006

Today I went to court. We were in front of the court commissioner to see if Jackalope had any basis for trying to go for full custody of T. He was denied a trial. But, that doesn't mean troubles are over because he has 10 days to appeal.

Court was interesting. In Jackalope's motion he put exaggerated statements and one straight up lie where he grossly misquoted what T's counselor said. That was the only real basis he was going on to get full custody. So before this court date I gave the counselor a copy of what Jackalope stated she said in his motion. She wasn't happy at all about it.

T's counselor faxed an accurate statement to the court commissioner stating the truth and that she didn't feel it would be in T's best interest for there to be a change in her living arrangement. Jackalope was unaware of this fax and began his opening statement with, "T's counselor said blah blah blah..." he was then cut off by the commissioner while she waved a paper in the air saying, "She did not say that and I have a paper right here stating what she did say" That was his only realistic complaint for having custody changed. So that basically ended our court session.

The only part that came up regarding B was Jackalope ranting about how he heard that B was on drugs. He said B overdosed. He also said I was a known drug user. OMG! Thankfully the court commissioner said, she would like to hear what I had to say about that. I said, "Your honor, I haven't used drugs since I was 16 years old. I went to treatment myself at that time. I am not an active drug user. As for B, yes, he was placed in a treatment facility by my wishes but he did not overdose. I caught him in the act and I take that very seriously and within 3 days he was in Houston because it's the 3rd best facility in the nation. I wish for me taking an active responsible role in keeping my family healthy not to used against me." And that was about it.

Another good part was him trying to explain why he lost his job and his inability to fulfill his responsibility for her health insurance. He blamed our past court case saying he needed to defend himself so his sales went down. My attorney said, "Mr. Jackalope ( ha! I can't use his real name!) you said in court before you only work 14 hours a week. Do you think maybe they didn't want you anymore because you aren't productive for them" LOL Gee, I wonder.

Then the issue came up about him not sharing responsibility with taking T to counseling. He again tried to blame me and he got a raised eyebrow from the commissioner because what he was saying didn't even explain why I've been taking her and he hasn't.

Unfortunately, these blows are his fuel to really obsess about winning so I fully expect an appeal.

Since he is representing himself through all this I don't think he realizes that there is a 2 year grace period when you have a final custody agreement and him flying back into court only 5 months later isn't wise. If he appeals we are seeking full court costs to be re-embursed. Because any lawyer would tell him he doesn't have grounds to drag me to court again.

The judge made it very clear that if he sees us again someone will severely lose. Meaning he will award full custody of T to one parent. The judge felt we couldn't co-parent well and wasn't thrilled about us splitting custody. Jackalope is forcing us to enter very dangerous ground.

I'd like to start spending my energies on actually living instead of my time and money being used up to defend my living.

On a good note. The confetti is cleaned up! LOL I think.

My new favorite Cd is "Back to Bedlam" by James Blunt. I never heard of this guy and I stumbled on his song, "You're Beautiful" and I found I loved the whole cd. His Voice....omg!! and of course he plays acoustic. I'm melting. He's quite fine looking too, ladies! Oh dear, I think I've acquired a fan based crush. -blushing- LOL :-P Lets see if this works...
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