One year ago today
My client kissed his wife and children and went to work. He was extra busy due to Christmas deliveries with the parcel service.
They were living with his parents.
While he was at work, his wife made her move: She kidnapped their children from their home and moved in with her mother 10 miles away. She tried to even claim title to his parents' vehicle which they lent her. She called the cops on his parents (both in their 70s). The kids were screaming and crying and she pulled them by their hair into her mother's vehicle.
And she wouldn't let my client see, speak with, or contact his children and vice versa for nine months. She took out a false domestic violence restraining order to ensure that if he did make attempts, she could have him arrested.
He missed spending Christmas, their birthdays, holidays, and daily companionship with his children. He was afraid that his children would believe that he abandoned them, that he didn't love them or value them.
At her mother's apartment, the three children were sleeping on the floor and malnourished.
My client was depressed, angry, confused. And worse, he still loved her and wanted her back.
In the meantime, unbeknownst to him, his wife made an emergency application for child custody. That's where I came in, to prevent the Order from being memorialized and no contact with his children for at least two years.
But his wife made a fatal error: She was arrested for being heavily intoxicated in a public park with her children.
Needless to say, my client made the most of the situation and long story short, he now has joint custody with her.
I feel compassion for my client. While a lot of issues have been resolved and he's with his children again, he still longs for an "intact" family with a very flawed woman.
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you didn't just change his life, you helped his kids 
