My question involves a child custody case from the State of: Illinois
I live in Chicago and am a white northern European female. My baby girl is due in March. I am concerned that if my ex and I get split custody of the child issued by court, he will take the child away to Pakistan (where he is from as well as his fundamentalist family).
- What are the laws regarding that?
- In addition, how do I go about making a simple court order, do I call the court? (I don't have money for a lawyer and he does).
-Are the child custody laws only emphasized in America. So can he just espcape the country with my daughter, and as long as he doesn't come back to the US, he can't get arrested?
Can infants have passports, can he just take the infant out of the country? He threatened that he’d sell the baby girl for “good money” to a wealthy man to marry in Pakistan because he claims lighter skinned American girls are worth “tenfold.”
If anyone knows anything and can help me out, that would be so very wonderful and greatly appreciated. I'm scared that I might never see my daughter again if this happens because he's been threatening to do this to me along with many other harrassments. He "had" a drug record I recently found out, but he paid a police officer off to take it off his record. I feel hopeless because I am not as manipulative as him. Any type of information would be so appreciated.
(On a side note, I left him because he was manipulative, physically, and verbally abusive, and I found out he’s a con artist that does illegal things. He lied about where he worked and he hides many things. I moved away so he doesn’t know where I live but I’m terrified he’s going to show up by my work and put a tracking device on my car, that’s like him to do those types of things).

