First, let me say that I appreciate anything anyone can help me with.

I am a concerned father in Florida. My wife and I are going through a divorce and custody battle. My wife walked out and took my son 8 months ago. She left me for her own selfish reasons. She decided that she wanted to be single, but I later found out that she actually left me for another man who she now lives with. We have been going through a custody battle where we both want custody of our son. I am a firefighter/paramedic and live a good, clean life. I have a nice home and provide my son with everything he needs. She on the other hand, quits her jobs on a regular basis. Lives in a 1980 single wide dumpy trailer. Lives with a man and has several friends that she hangs out with. They are all into drugs and I am sure that she is now as well. She is not teaching my son to grow. He is only 14 months old and grows and learns so much when I have him. He gains weight with me and once he is back with her, he loses weight because she does not feed him properly. I pay child support current of $625 per month and she lives with a guy, but still cannot provide food for our son.

I have a lawyer, but am running out of money. I have pulled part of my retirement to fight her. She is using legal aid and has spent almost nothing to fight me. I have currently spent $8700 and my lawyer is wanting an additional $4000. I also need $1900 for a home evaluation. Iwas supposed to only have to pay half of the home evaluation, but her lawyer said she could not afford it so the court told me I would have to pay it if I wanted to continue with the case. I also need $1200 for a mental/psych evaluation for her and myself that is part of my case. She has been diagnosed with mental depression in the past and needs to be evaluated for the courts to make a judgement on that as well.

So, in total I am in need of $7100.  I know that is a lot of money, but my son and his welfar is worth every penny. He needs a safe, clean and healthy environment to grow. I can provide that for him where she has taken him into a very unhealthy environment. Please help me. Many thanks to everyone.

D Chavis    PO Box 877  Glen St. Mary, FL 32040

I AM IN DESPERATE NEED OF HOUSING AND GRANT INFORMATION TO HELP ME TO GET MY SELF ON MY FEET

I AM IN NEED OF A GRANT TO COVER THE EXPENCES OF BUYING OR RENTING A HOME FOR MY SON AND I, ALSO TO PAY OFF DEBTS TO MY TRUCK MACHANIC, I AM DESPERATE PLEASE SOMEONE GIVE ME ADVISE

Hello, my name is Barbara D. and I am in desperate need to save my daughter. The situation is that because I do not have the financial resource to fight a child custody with proper legal representation, my daughter contiunes to live with an abusive/negletful father. My child has already recieved a black eye at the age of 4 from her father, the court refuses to listen. My case has turned into such a mess, some of it due to the fact I was acting pro se. I have contacted many attorney(well over 100) to help me, but only results in them wanting to get paid. I have found an attorney who is willing to help me at the very least to get me off supervised visitations with my daughter. I was place on supervised visits without a hearing and a result of my reporting what I thought was best. To report to the court what had occurred to my daughter. I have never been accused or even alledge of neglect or harmful to my daughter. Please I am asking for help..... Should you have any questions I am willing to provide documents(proof) of all that I am saying...

Thank you

MY NAME IS STEPHANIE WATERMAN, I AM CURRENTLY HOMELESS AND STAYING WITH A CUOPLE WHO SAW ME IN THE STREET. I HAVE WORKING IN A GROCEREY STORE IN TOWN. I AM A MOTHER, I HAD TO GIVE TEMPORARY GUARDIANSHIP TO MY SONS GRANDPARENTS. MY ONLY VEHICHLE IS IN THE SHOP FOR REPAIRS I CANT AFFORD TO PAY FOR,MY TRUK HAS BENE IN THIS SHOP FOR 9 MONTHS. CURRENTLY THINGS IN  MY LIFE SEEM TO COST SO MUCH I JUST CANT FIND RESOURSES TO AID ME IN MY TIME OF NEED. MY EYESIGHT IS PLUS NINE FIFTY WHICH IS LEGALLY BLIND YET I NEED GLASSES THAT ARE TO EXPENSIVE,AND NO BENIFITS TO HELP WITH THE COSTS.MY CREDIT HASENT BENE THE GREATEST FOR I WAS A CO SIGHNER WHEN I WAS LIVING IN MY FIRST APARTMEN,FAMILY MEMBERS WERE LIVING WITH ME BUT NOT PITCHING IN WITH RENT SO I RECIEVED A JUDGMENT I COULD NOT DEFEND, I SOMETIMES THINK I MUST HAVE SO MANY RESOLVED ISSUSE AND SO MANY FEARS THAT I NEED HELP IN DEALING WITH TO REDEEM MY STRONG INDEPENDENT LIFE  AGAIN I AM LOOKING FOR AN AMOUNT OF MONEY TO HELP REGAIN MY HOME,TRUCK AND CHILD BACK INTO MY LIFE. I WILL LEAVE THE AMOUNT UP TO THOSE WHO REVIEW MY APPLICATION ,PLEASE ANSWER MY QUESTIONS THE BEST  YOU  KNOW HOW,CONSIDER MY OPTIONS, AND INFORM ME AS SOON AS POSSABLE. I APPRIECIATE YOUR TIME THANK YOU .   STEPHANIE WATERMAN

Hello to any one reading this...

    My son has been missing for over a year... His aunt and her boyfriend filed a dishonestc laim against me and was awarded a temporary custody order through the Washington County Court system.  The details are far too long to be posted on this blog, after all, I came here on a random search of the world wide web, to find rental assistance for my sister...  I always wanted people to know how easy one can fall through a loophole in the system.  How the judge didn't investigate these two people when they made fradulant claims against me in an attempt to take custody of my son, and how when I proved that they lied in their clames,  the judge "didn't feel comfortablle signing me over legal, full, custody, without a proper trial," and instructed me to take it up with the courts in Montana.

 Upon finding out that they had taken this so called temporary custody order and moving to the state of Montana, with the help of my family, we called in amber alerts and the officials in both our own county and that of Columbia falls, MT.  My son's aunt and her boyfriend were investigated and my son was evaluted, the government proceeded to tell me that this wasn't conisidered a kidnap,  "this is a civil matter and you need to go to court."

This I would have done, had the two people in care of my son had not dropped off the face of the earth.  They stopped answering the phones, and then the line went dead.  And I tried to send things, but they just got sent back, with stickernotes from the post office saying there  was no one residing at that adress; the adress that they had filed with the courts in the middle of a custody battle.  To my knowledge they were under law supposed to file any new adresses or change of contact with the courts.  But I've checked, and theres no record in my own county of a change of adress, and no record of them at all in the city they were supposed to be residing in.  My son's bilogical father, sad to say, is worthless, and has only made this mess worse.  He now lives in a whole other state, with his new 1 year old son, and refuses to come back and face what he left behind, even though it took me a year just to find him!  I'm at a loss for words, thoughts, and everything else when it comes to my son: Johnathon Kekoa Kopono Pineda... 

When I asked for advice from these so called officials, they suggested I should call a private investigator, and a good attorney...it pretty much sounds like this to me; "go pay for a crime to be retributed that the government should be overseeing".

Sometimes I meet women who have lost their kids to foster care. And of course, they can relate.  But in the quiet, when I'm alone, I can't lie to myself.  I wish the state had taken him over is aunt and her boyfreind, at least then I would know he was safe, have visitation with him, and a fair chance, to get him home again.   I don't even know where he is!!!!!!  I need help, someone to hear my cry and guide me in the direction,  until then, I will continue this story...

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