Non-Custodial Parent

Ever since posting about my problems with the ex and the courts I can’t get it off my mind. Or better yet it’s my kids that are on my mind. I am the proud parent of three sons and a daughter. The oldest now is 21.

I have a story to tell and made an executive decision to tell it here. It doesn’t have anything to do with West Virginia or the outdoors. What it does have to do with is the future of four kids that nobody seemed to care about.

Four years ago my ex filed unruly charges against my then fifteen year old son and my only daughter who was thirteen at the time. I was working in Texas when I heard about it. I had been divorced for twelve years. In that time I had had very little contact with my kids. I would say twice a year was about the average. My ex made it nearly impossible for me. Most of the time I didn’t even know where they were. So when I heard about their legal problems in Ohio, I was on my way within two days…

That begins a journey through a legal battle where I was doomed when I left Texas. But being a father that loves his kids… knowing what I know now…. I’d do it all over again only I would fight harder next time. The course of events that this series will cover has made me consider a lawsuit against a few Ohio state and county organizations. But how do you put a price on the future your children may have had, had they been given the opportunity?

This series is going to be labeled Non-Custodial Parent. The reason for that is those words I heard so much during the whole affair that I now associate them with nothing good.
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