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Joint legal (decision-making) custody is the norm - you're going to actually need a reason for the court to deny Dad any decision-making ability. You can be as determined as you want, but if the court orders it you will be sticking to it.

The courts are, as a rule, reluctant to have default orders set in stone. But this doesn't mean that he can string you along forever, either. The longer he waits without appealing, the better the chances of the court upholding the default order.

In order for future custody to change he'll have a two-pronged burden to meet; first there must be a significant change of circumstance and then if such a CoC is present, it must be enough that changing custody is in the child's best interest.

(The mildew thing? You probably don't want to use that as an example - it would be painfully easy to use that against you)
How? It wasn't her apartment or bathroom? What am I not getting?