Hoping They’ll Be Civil
I promised my cousin I’d go to court with her tomorrow. She’s in the middle of a divorce, and she’s going in for her first custody hearing. She’s scared out of her mind because she doesn’t know what to expect. She doesn’t know if her soon to be ex is going to cooperate or not, what the judge is going to do, and all that.
I know she’s so worried because even though the divorce has been civil she’s heard a ton of horror stories from her friends about how their ex’s were perfect and then suddenly decided to be a jerk as far as the kids were concerned.
I’m trying to keep her calm and remind her this isn’t all Jerry Springer-like. She doesn’t have DNA testing and all that kind of stuff going on. Her soon to be ex has agreed to share custody, and they’ve even written up what they agreed the terms should be. Now they’ve just got to get the judge to approve it. Her soon to be ex has been great about giving her $200 a week for the kids…way more than most states would require in child support. We just hope things go well with the child support when all this stuff is said and done.
I just don’t want the kids to suffer. I know it’s going to be hard enough on them with their parents splitting. Luckily for me I was almost 18 when my parents separated, but my sister was 15, and even at that age it really made an impact on her life.
Tags: child support, civil custody battle, custody battle, divorce
