Ex Husband Still Trying to Control Everything

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Location: Tennessee

Hello, my girlfriend’s divorce was finalized in March this year after they separated in October. They have 1 kid together and then he adopted her other daughter. In the paperwork they signed, there were a few things to note.

  1. Both have 50/50 custody
  2. Joint decision making on children (school, health, religious, etc)
  3. Ex husband pays no child support or alimony, but is to provide health and dental insurance to kids.
  4. If either parent is not available, the kids can be watched by ex husband’s mom or her sisters.
  5. Neither parent shall introduce the youngest kid to a partner within 6 months of meeting them and no overnight guests unless by blood or marriage.

Recently, she has started to move in with me (about 20 minutes from her ex husband and the kid’s schools. Obviously this kind of goes against point 5 above, as we are not married. We did wait 6 months to introduce me to the son, while the ex husband has introduced him to 4 different women during that time frame who had all stayed the night. One is currently living in a camper in his driveway.

He knew they were moving in, he knew I was involved as I had went to the school open houses and he watched me get signed up to pick kids up from school and stuff. Now he is wanting to start to pull papers and is threatening to take my girlfriend to court. I was going to pick him up from school and he is freaking out now and threatening court. The thing is he has broken most of those rules too and also still has not put the kids on any form of insurance.

What are the chances that contempt could be given for moving in with me and things like that. Is this something you think we should worry about?

Comments

  1. ApprehensiveEarth659 Avatar

    If your co-habitation violated the custody agreement, then your girlfriend can be held in contempt for violating that.

    The ex-husband is free at any time to seek adjustment of the custody orders. Your girlfriend is free to try to hold him in contempt and/or to move to adjust the custody orders.

    His potential violations do not in any way excuse your potential violations.

  2. Internet_Ghost Avatar

    >What are the chances that contempt could be given for moving in with me and things like that.

    High.

    >Is this something you think we should worry about?

    Yes. Your girlfriend is clearly violating the court order.