
Quoting
mybell21
I have joint custody with my ex-husband for our 16 year old daughter. The agreement has not been modified since it was placed when she was 10 yrs. old. My daughter thinks she wants to live with her Dad. I have many reservations against this because of past history. I know of two occasions where her step-mother gave her alcohol in her father's home. The father is an alcoholic. He suffered brain damage from head trauma received during a seizure. He seems to be left with difficulty clearly remembering timelines, past events, and some words are gone from his language. Suffice to say - not all the pistons are firing in there.
This past weekend my ex-husband snuck her out of the house after midnight on Friday and refused to bring her back home. I filed a missing person’s report the next morning when I discovered she was gone. This has never happened before. I didn't receive a phone call in the morning that she was at his house. I feared she had run away.
I am also preparing to file for sole custody and petitioning for payment for in-a-rears support payments that are over $15,000 behind. I have not been aggressively after him for the monies because he has been on disability from the injury and not working.