Fathers who win Custody?

[greeneyes36]

There are definitely situations where the kids are better off with the father than the mother and vice versa... just depends on the situation, the kids, the parents, the environment. every case is unique. I am thankful i have my daughters but i am open to my ex spending as much time as he wants with them -- we have "liberal" visitation - i'm good with a phone call the night before if he wants to take them to dinner or something the next evening...

 

[Wenchy]

Are there any fathers out there who have won custody of there kids? I'd love to here your story. As well as what happened after you won. Did she fight the arrangement? Did she pay childsupport? My husband and I are going through a battle and I'm loosing hope and could really use some real life, happy ending stories to cheer me up.

What is your story? Are either of you moving away? Every scenario is so different. Unfortunately, there are too many scenarios, and without specifics it is difficult to say.

My story. I've been married twice. First hubby and I shared 50/50 custody and lived in homes less than a mile apart. When our child reached 15, she wanted to just live with me and her stepfather. I did ask her father for a bit of help, but he said "No" and I did not push.

Second hubby. He has primary custody and I have anytime visitation. I can either bring my son here or go stay there (I moved) He goes to school there and I wasn't about to uproot him. My daughter still considers the other home (with her stepfather) her primary residence. I do not pay child support.

The main issue is/are the child/children. What is best for them.

 

[SoMDGirl42]

I shared custody of my first two kids. Their father remarried and moved to FL and had another child.

At about 14 my son decided he wanted to try living with his father, he was having a hard time in school here and wanted a fresh start. He completed 10th-12th grade in Florida and now lives on his own.

 

[smdavis65]

I was just getting out of Reidsville state prison in Georgia after doing a 4 year stint for felony assault, for beating a Balloon artist/clown with a tire iron and throwing him off an overpass into traffic.

I followed the social worker to the foster home Boy was being held at and broke in at night and sprung him. After I stole a car we took off for Missouri where we lived in a shack on the shore of the Lake of the Ozarks. We lived off Vienna Sausage and salad bar left overs from a Sizzler in town for 9 months when we took off for North Dakota after a strip mall security guard nabbed Boy trying to boost a gumball machine and I had to shank him with a straight slot screw driver I sharpened on a rock.

North Dakota sucked so after we knocked over 3 convenience stores to score some cash I took him to a strip joint in Fargo for a birthday party for his 10th birthday. He had a blast. Now we live here under assumed names and we are happy.

See, that is the epitome of a good father. He beat up the clown that was terrorizing his child, was wrongfully sentenced to jail, reunited with his son, took his son on a journey to learn all about this great land we live in, and then gave him a kind and gentle introduction into manhood.

They should make a commercial about that, OH! WAIT!!! Oprah should have a show about this man's sacrifices for his son, and the gifts he gave him!