My question involves a child custody case from the State of: Colorado
I have been divorced from an abusive man for 2 1/2 years. About 1 1/2 years ago he got arrested for child abuse and spousal abuse. I moved seperate of him within a couple of weeks.
I have filed a contempt for non-payment of court ordered monies owed to me and a modification of parenting allocation. When original was done we were still living together. So in November I file for the changes and ask for supervised visitations for him. The girls have lived with me the entire time since leaving. Dad is ANGRY. He is filing papers and contempts and making a huge amount of false accusations.
I have to fight the case alone as I cannot afford an attorney. CO Legal Services won't help because it's not the original petition but a modification.
In his contempt following my filings (oh, he was mad) he has blatantly lied and when I did my response, I sent in my evidence that they were lies. Like he claims that I don't allow him to talk to the girls yet I had phone records that I sent in showing where there are several 6-8 minute calls per week to him. Not to mention he slips in later filings mentioning he talks to them. He also claimed I refused to file a parenting plan which the court stamped and acknowledged a couple months before this accusation. He claimed on his contempt I wouldn't allow him to see them but told the mediator I do. I also included in my response copies of emails where I offered countless times for him to visit them as long as it was supervised and yet the courts haven't said anything about any of it even though I've brought the lies to their attention. He's claiming alienation though I have these girls call him several times a week and have offered over and over for him to see them supervised. (there was no visitation stipulation in our original plan because we were all still living in the same house) I try to nurture and encourage positive thoughts and emotions within the girls towards him. They were present a lot of the time during abuse and were present the night he finally got arrested for it, which the police report shows, all I can do is try to encourage the contact and relationship between them but how can I disprove this other than the phone records and emails offering visitations?
He also just now, a month before our hearing date has decided to file his cross-motion and has asked for full parenting time and only over night visits for me and he included the stipulation that he'd get the opportunity to decide when those could start.
He was extremely abusive in many senses. He even went after a friend of mine and went to his house, broke his screen door and light fixture and screamed at him, threatening him with a gun. The cops were called but they couldn't find the gun so there wasn't an arrest. There are records showing of the incident. I'm trying to get those records now, including a statement from the victim..
Will his violence and perjury on his filings and contempt stand for anything? Is there a chance he'll get what he's seeking? They girls have been with me since birth as their primary care-taker, I have a clean record and care for their other 3 siblings which I have full parenting time of. I cannot imagine these girls being ripped from our lives like he intends to do. HE was the perpetrator of abuse yet somehow I have this horrible feeling he may get unsupervised visitation or even joint parenting time which scares me as he is playing the victim in a sense.
Can anyone share with me stories and their experience with the CO family courts? Can anyone share with me their opinion?

