Re: Following Court Order
If she has no job or money, there's not much point in trying to enforce a child support arrearage. If she can't pay, another order won't change that.
Re: Following Court Order
I realize that because she is not working their wont be any payments. But the courts still felt she should be held responsible.
She will get a tax return. They can take that, suspend her license or put her in jail.
I am so afraid of her hurting the girls again (not physically but emotionally), I just found out that she has seen the father of the children at lest in the last 3 weeks as he stabbed her in the leg. I had seen the puncture and thought it needed stitches, but she said there was a knife on the table (or counter) and she ran into it. These are the kinds of things that caused her to lose in court as it were.
I do have another question, I have tried to read everything I can on final orders and the Judge kept telling her this is a FINAL ORDER, when she asked him if she got a job and could pass a drug test if she would be able to get her kids back he said "This is a FINAL ORDER", everything I have read seems to be saying the only thing she can change is child support and/or visitation, and then in is suppose to be a year before you can do that. So my question is: Am I reading this right for the state of Texas?
Please no criticisms, just help.
Re: Following Court Order
If Mom is unable - and not simply unwilling - to make the visitations, I cannot see a court ordering suspension of visitation if she misses 2 consecutive. And even though her lack of ability to visit is because of her own actions the courts will recognize that she IS unemployed and without a vehicle.
It takes a lot more in terms of noncompliance before you can reasonably expect a court to change the current order; think along the lines of no contact/visitation for at least 6 months and more often, a year.
Also, Mom is Mom. When a third party has custody/conservatorship there is often a premise that the goal is to reunite the parent with the children.
Bear this in mind :)