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Im sorry if this is long winded but like to give as much info as i can and would appreciate any advice hints and help i can get.
I have been in a custordy battle for my daughter for almost a year now, My lil girl is also just over a year old now too, i have been going for residence from the onset as i feel her mother can not fully care for our daughters needs.
The mother of my lil girl also has 2 older boys who were taken off of her prior to the pregencey of my daughter, she had attempted suicide while pregnent with her youngest boy and then attempted it again when they were 4 & 5 years old, the father took them from the mothers care then took it to court, the outcome of that was found that the boys were better off in the fathers full time care and mother only has weekend visitations.
I have a recorded phone call between myself and the mother with her threatening to kill herself and my unborn baby where quite a few times she clearly says that she wants to "slit her wrists" and "take an overdose", I also have video and photographic evidence of the dusgusting state of her house, beige carpets that are thick with black dirt and bits of chewed up stuff from the dog and my daughters clothes just thrown everywhere, The judge from the very beggining has chosen to ignore all of this because there is a "psychiatric assesment" and "social sevices report" that was done befor my court case (for the case of her 2 boys) the psychiatric report is a laughable joke it even states that the mother knew full well what she was being assesed for and that it would hold bearing on if she would get full time care of her 2 boys again or not. Now what mother is their right mind would tell the truth in that situation and say that they still have suicidal tendencies etc... but not only that in the psychiatric report it says that the mother has never recieved any short term or long term counceling or any other form of help other than medication to resolve the underlying issues she obviously has. It was also found that although she did not have a "mental illness" as in Schizophrenia or the likes of, but was found the she suffers with adjustment disorders and personality traits and has a "needy" nature and i have evidence to support that she only becomes stable minded while in a relationship and needs that to stay level headed but if that relationship breaks down so does her mental state.
The social services report goes on to say that the home has been assesed and that "there is no cause for concern" well quite obviously social services did not do their assesment properly as the video evidence i have was taken after this so called report and quite plainly shows that her property is not hygenic for a small baby to be crawling around in with the carpets in the state they are with a dog and a rabbit allowed free roam around the house so is risk of hairs, urine and ficies to be on the floor where my daughter has access to. Still from the start the judge has chose to ignore all this.
since the case has been going the mother and her partner have done nothing but lie in their statements i have physical evidence to support this and also just by reading their statements u can tell they are lying, a statement once signed becomes a legal document and to lie within that is a legal offence, The judge has never questioned anything in any of the motheres statements never questioned her about any evidence i have submitted and most of the evidence i submit as well as statements the judge does not even read as many times while in court he has had to get my statements out to read parts that he should have already read, where as the judge has done nothing but question me about the things in the mothers statement.
The mother has now also broken 2 contact orders and i have evidence to support that it was done unjustly, this is also another legal offence as a court order is legally binding and not much different from "bail conditions" per say. I have evidence to support that she is tryimng to keep me out of my daughters life so she can replace me as dad with her current partner as i have found that she refers to him as dad to my little girl also things they have put in their own statements suggest this as well, i also have evidence to support that the mother believes the less time i get to spend with my daughter the less likely i am to gain residence so she therefor does everything she can to ensure i get to see my little girl as little as possable. The judge pays no attention to anything i have to say he is very rude and a bully, for example in the last case i had he asked me a quesion to which i replied "no" then he asked me another to which i replied "sometimes but who doesnt" some how from them few short words his following words were "well you do sound very aggresive just from the speed of your voice", How he got that from less than half a sentence is beyond me and i dont see what the "speed" of my voice has to do with aggression but the thing that really made me laugh was not a few sentences later he starts SCREAMING at me to stop smiling when of course i was not even smiling as its not even a happy time for me to be fighting for my daughter. So one minute im too aggressive the next im too happy hmmmm???
The mothers biggest trick to sop me seeing my daughter is her constant lie that she is "still breast feeeding" and that my daughter does not like bottles or teets will apprently drink juice from a cup but apprently will not touch cows milk at all, and due to me living 120 miles away the courts will not allow me to take her home to meet the rest of her family etc.. so that baby is still close enough to mother to be fed etc... i know this to be lies as i have seen bottles at mothers house on many occasions but also when i had the last contact with my daughter i took a bottle with teet filled it half way with cows milk and have it on video her drinking away quite happily and rather enjoying it even when i took the empty bottle out of the bag you could see that my lil girl had instant identification with it knew exactly what it was and kept trying to grab it.
Im the one who started the court proceedings to make sure my daughter is cared for properly but yet it seems the more i try to fight for her the more both her mother and the courts system try to keep me away from her when i have done nothing wrong at all to warrant this kind of treatment the mother says that im an aggressive person but has not given one bit of evidence to support ANY of her claims against me but yet the judge still istens to them and believes them. i feel the judge just does not like me and just does not take my case serious enough, i feel there are both mental and physical risks to my daughter both at present and in the future but it all just seems to be falling on deaf ears.
as you can see its all a bit of a mess and seems completely unfair on both me and my daughter obviously there is alot more to my case but i didnt want to fill this up too much but still give enough detail, any help support advice or anything i can gain would be very much appreciated if you require other details please feel free to ask 🙂
Thanks for taking the time to read my story
Matt 🙂
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