My question involves a child custody case from the State of: Virginia
We have yet to go to court but my ex feels that he is "more likely" to get custody of our infant (less than 1 yr old) because he makes more money than I do. He keeps threatening to take him from me if I do anything he doesn't like. For the past few months the ex has been going out all night (not returning until 6am or later), which actually caused ME to lose my job because of day care issues. He does not help at all with our child (we still live together unfortunately), I am 100% responsible for the baby as well as housework and working full time. I feed, wash, cloth, diaper the baby as well as take baby to appts and out to play. When I was looking for work, my ex would not even buy food for the house or the baby so I had to apply for WIC just to make sure I could feed him. I constantly had to borrow money for diapers and wipes from my family because he wouldn't buy it when I'd ask him to. Now that I am working again, I am the one buying it all. He constantly goes out of state to visit his family but never brings the baby or even offers. If he is out all night he will not answer phone calls from me, not knowing if I am calling with an emergency about the baby or not... He literally has put the baby on the floor and screamed "SHUT UP!!!" at him when he doesn't know what he wants. I am scared to death of him losing his temper and hurting him if he doesn't know what he wants.
Honestly, does he have more of a chance of getting him because he makes more money than I do even though I am his primary caregiver?? I know in today's world the court doesn't automatically look to the mother and it scares me to death![]()

