Just Shy of Two Years
All the legal wrangling and battling covering the past twenty months finally, finally concluded today. As the news is public record, I can post openly.
What did dad end up with after all the screaming and kicking? It's good.
There is one very important condition to all this. This is a provision that if Dad facilitates any type of contact between Johnna and Nyree, or arranges for someone else to arrange a meeting - even a supervised visit, he forever forfeits his parental rights to Johnna. Finito! We'll sling his butt in front of this judge so fast he won't even know what's happened. The judge was NOT pleased to discover the day after dad testified Nyree was an unfit parent, he arranged for a week long visit between the two. (He called her just about every name in the book to express how earnest his conviction is, some of the descriptions causing everyone in the courtroom to burst out laughing, especially when it was summed that Nyree was the sole cause of global warming!.) So all it will take is one phone call to close the book on both of these irresponsibile parenting dolts. To this end, we're willing to pay the $300 to have Johnna chipped so we can track her movements via GPS. (Not an empty threat)
There's only one very small detail to work out. We wern't happy about it initially, but when we discovered it will most certainly work to Johnna's long-range benefit, we became rather animated. For sanity's sake, we'll keep this one a secret for the time being. And really, in the greater scheme of things, it's not a big deal.
It's over! We won!
What did dad end up with after all the screaming and kicking? It's good.
- Dad gets 1st and 3rd weekend overnight visitation. No such thing as an extended three day holiday weekend.
- Dad gets Christmas and Thanksgiving days, to alternate annually.
- Dad gets 4 hours to spend with her on her birthday.
- Nightly 5 minute phone calls.
- Beginning next year, he gets a two week summer visitation.
- He must provide clothing and other hygienic needs for her weekend stays. No more packing a suitcase for each visit.
There is one very important condition to all this. This is a provision that if Dad facilitates any type of contact between Johnna and Nyree, or arranges for someone else to arrange a meeting - even a supervised visit, he forever forfeits his parental rights to Johnna. Finito! We'll sling his butt in front of this judge so fast he won't even know what's happened. The judge was NOT pleased to discover the day after dad testified Nyree was an unfit parent, he arranged for a week long visit between the two. (He called her just about every name in the book to express how earnest his conviction is, some of the descriptions causing everyone in the courtroom to burst out laughing, especially when it was summed that Nyree was the sole cause of global warming!.) So all it will take is one phone call to close the book on both of these irresponsibile parenting dolts. To this end, we're willing to pay the $300 to have Johnna chipped so we can track her movements via GPS. (Not an empty threat)
There's only one very small detail to work out. We wern't happy about it initially, but when we discovered it will most certainly work to Johnna's long-range benefit, we became rather animated. For sanity's sake, we'll keep this one a secret for the time being. And really, in the greater scheme of things, it's not a big deal.
It's over! We won!