My question involves a child custody case from the State of: Arkansas
To make this as short as possible, here's the basics. Wife left a year ago this month to "visit family". She hasn't returned since then (except once for a day). She was in the state of Utah at first, then moved to Colorado to live with her boyfriend (her own admission). She filed for divorce in Utah, I counter filed in Arkansas. Judge in Utah gave her temp. custody. Jurisdiction hearing was put off twice (in Utah). When it finally went to court, Utah declared that Arkansas has jurisdiction. Until this point I had no idea where my son was. I knew they were in CO, and I drove out there once before she got temp. custody and she hid him from me (her oldest son told me they were near Denver). Our son is 8 and had been in school there for most of the year by the time jurisdiction was decided. The judge agreed to let her keep him there to finish the school year.
School year ended and the judge has ordered visitation for 5 consecutive weeks, which ends 5 days before our final court date. The order also states that although she may have him back 5 days before the court date, she is not to remove him from the state of Arkansas until after the court date. I thought that was a little weird. Has anyone ever heard of this? She doesn't live here...doesn't have a house here...doesn't have friends here anymore, basically she burned all of her bridges. Now she is saying that she will be here five days before the court date to get him back and that she will have the police remove me from my home so she can stay here until it's all final. Can she do this? We did live in the house together, but it is premarital property, and I do have a prenup. Plus, she left it over a year ago. She returned to the state once a few months after she left (while she knew I was out of town), and took a lot of personal property out of the house. Some of the stuff was premarital property, some joint property. But she removed about $10,000 worth of stuff... I have replaced some of these things (like televisions, she took every single one), and I'd really rather not have to replace it all again. I offered to get her a motel room and she declined. Can she really make me leave my house so she can stay in it for 5-7 days? This just doesn't seem right to me... My lawyer is on vacation all next week so I thought I'd get some input elsewhere before I go completely crazy. She's sending me nasty emails every 30 minutes and just generally being a pain. I already have my son, which she tried to prevent. I there anything I can do to stop her from doing this? And does this seem weird to anyone else? Why would the judge give him back to her at the end of the five weeks, only to tell her she can't take him anywhere? The judge is aware of where she is living, knows she doesn't have anywhere to go here. I am fighting for full custody... This whole thing just seems bizarre to me.

