Custodial Parent Moved to Neighboring County

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Quoting BooRennie

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Those are not custody orders.

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This is the only document he has

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Quoting JacesMomma

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This is the only document he has

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This is getting ridiculous. You don't know enough about his situation, and he evidently doesn't care about it (you need to remember that).

And while that may be the only document he has, there have been other documents. Trust me. But seriously, why are you even worrying about it?

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Quoting Dogmatique

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This is getting ridiculous. You don't know enough about his situation, and he evidently doesn't care about it (you need to remember that).

And while that may be the only document he has, there have been other documents. Trust me. But seriously, why are you even worrying about it?

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Because I care about them and I don't want her to have any reason to get them back. No need to be rude. Just because I don't have the info you want doesn't mean he doesn't care.

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Quoting JacesMomma

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Ok I know all that he does because he told me everything he knows. And the only docs he has says:

AND NOW to wit, this April 23, 2012 it is hereby ordered that:
The above captioned case is closed effective 7/19/11 as the children are in the custody of the defendant. There are no arrears.

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Sorry, I was picking up my puppy from the vet and THOROUGHLY reading the information given to me :rolleyes:

That says NOTHING that you think it does. It says the kids are with him so the DCS case is closed. That doesn't say he has custody. It doesn't say anything other than the court is terminating the need for dependency court intervention and he owes no money.

So we're right back where we started. Tell dad (if it matters to him at all) to get on the horn, find some court orders and come back when he has them. If he doesn't feel the need to clarify, then there is no reason for you to feel the need to because the onus is on the parent to figure out what's going on, not his girlfriend.

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Quoting JacesMomma

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Because I care about them and I don't want her to have any reason to get them back. No need to be rude. Just because I don't have the info you want doesn't mean he doesn't care.

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What tells me he doesn't care is the fact that he's not here.

You need to understand that the court doesn't care about you or your feelings. And to be blunt, you have nowhere near enough facts to even loosely discuss things.

So tell him he needs an attorney.

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Quoting CourtClerk

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Sorry, I was picking up my puppy from the vet and THOROUGHLY reading the information given to me :rolleyes:

That says NOTHING that you think it does. It says the kids are with him so the DCS case is closed. That doesn't say he has custody. It doesn't say anything other than the court is terminating the need for dependency court intervention and he owes no money.

So we're right back where we started. Tell dad (if it matters to him at all) to get on the horn, find some court orders and come back when he has them. If he doesn't feel the need to clarify, then there is no reason for you to feel the need to because the onus is on the parent to figure out what's going on, not his girlfriend.

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I suspect that what she posted is really all that he has. I suspect that he never took it any further than that and never got custody formalized. I have no idea how it would play out in court since information is so limited, but if that really is all that there is, he doesn't actually have custody legally.

He does have status quo though, and an ex that either didn't know enough, or didn't care enough to fight it.

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Quoting llworking

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I suspect that what she posted is really all that he has. I suspect that he never took it any further than that and never got custody formalized. I have no idea how it would play out in court since information is so limited, but if that really is all that there is, he doesn't actually have custody legally.

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So you think that after a dependency case has opened up, the other parent shows up and then the court says... OK, good enough. We're done? No identification of said man? No verification that he is who he says he is? Is that how they do things in Indiana? After every hearing would have been minutes that would have been provided to the parties. Something happened before that. Guaranteed.