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Anonymous.law
My question involves a marriage in the state of: Florida
I would like to explain my situation and request some professional and unbiased opinions on the matter. I am currently contemplating filing a dissolution of marriage against my wife but know that there is going to end up being a battle for custody over our child.
We married a few years ago in Florida before our child was born, I deployed shortly after our marriage and came home a few weeks after the birth.**everything was going well until about a year after our child's birth then we split up because she was talking to another guy. I had filed for a dissolution of marriage then and drug out the process for almost a year. One time while she was down picking up our son (I'm stationed in Florida and she was living with family in south Carolina) she confronted me saying that she wanted to try and work out our marriage again.
I know it wasn't the smartest thing to accept her back without a second thought but I did.* Everything was going well for a few months before they moved back down with me. Shortly after them moving back I began to get random texts from her that were meant for someone else.* I confronted her and some of them turned into arguments while others sounded more like an opps.
Finally I became very suspicious and decided to investigate a little on my own.* I started with reviewing text messages being sent and received, that's when I found out that she was talking to an ex from high school.* Instead of confronting her I created a fake phone number and decided to try and deter them from talking by saying things like I was going to tell her husband that she was planning on cheating on him again. This worked for a few months until just recently I became suspicious again.* I didn't see any texts this time but after checking her Facebook I seen that they were talking again.* I tried again to deter her again from talking to him but this time I installed a keylogger to her computer to see what was being said (I know, I'm untrustworthy and shouldn't have done it).
This time instead of them stop talking they created an email hidden,* I only found it because of the keylogger.* Within their conversations they talked about marriage and kids down the road, a wedding and her plans of leaving me. Her plan was to wait until after she finished school (over 2 years) and was more financially stable so she could fight me for our child.
This was around the time I started looking into filing for another dissolution.* My only problem is I know she is going to try and fight me for custody of our child, I myself am wanting to split custody 50/50 but with it be 8+ hours away I know this is a little harder. Another problem I am going to run into is legal fees, I do not have the money to pay a lawyer upfront the $3000+ fees for filing and legal actions.
I guess what I am looking for is input on the situation and any advice you may have for obtaining a lawyer that will give me a fighting chance. Please be considerate on your replies, I know that I did not approach this in a professional way.