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I'm stunned. 35 won the custody battle so to speak.
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<blockquote data-quote="witzend" data-source="post: 610731" data-attributes="member: 99"><p>MWM, I remember one time at a hearing (the 4th or 5th time?) when L's dad and Step were trying to terminate my rights - yet again. They had said I couldn't see her, and I didn't for about 7 months. (A very long sad story that all of the old timers know and I won't go into again.) They always had the <em>nastiest</em> attorneys, and I always had to represent myself. On this particular occasion their attorney was <em>really </em>ramping it up that I was neglectful in not finding a way to see her (I would show up for what few scheduled visits I had and they would say "no") and she kept getting closer and closer to the stand and as Perry Mason would say "badgering" me. She got right in my face and said, "In fact, <em>you</em> never even called L on the telephone <em>once</em> in the entire time you didn't see her, did you?" I admitted that I had not. She said (an attorney should never ask this question), "And <em>why</em> didn't you call her?" I replied "I didn't know I could."</p><p></p><p>L's stepmom had had her call me on speaker phone up until that time. L was 3.5 years old. That worked once. I would say, "I can't hear you very well when you're on the speaker phone. I need you to talk into the handset, not the speaker. The speaker hurts my ears." Then she would get on the phone and not have much to say, like any 3 year old. So, in my rebuttal to the nasty atty's questioning I testified that <em>one</em> reason in particular I didn't talk on the phone much to L was that whenever I did the phone always went to speakerphone, and I didn't like that it could be heard and/or recorded. </p><p></p><p>The judge ordered that I be allowed to speak to L on the phone any time that I pleased, and that it was to never be on the speakerphone unless I requested it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="witzend, post: 610731, member: 99"] MWM, I remember one time at a hearing (the 4th or 5th time?) when L's dad and Step were trying to terminate my rights - yet again. They had said I couldn't see her, and I didn't for about 7 months. (A very long sad story that all of the old timers know and I won't go into again.) They always had the [I]nastiest[/I] attorneys, and I always had to represent myself. On this particular occasion their attorney was [I]really [/I]ramping it up that I was neglectful in not finding a way to see her (I would show up for what few scheduled visits I had and they would say "no") and she kept getting closer and closer to the stand and as Perry Mason would say "badgering" me. She got right in my face and said, "In fact, [I]you[/I] never even called L on the telephone [I]once[/I] in the entire time you didn't see her, did you?" I admitted that I had not. She said (an attorney should never ask this question), "And [I]why[/I] didn't you call her?" I replied "I didn't know I could." L's stepmom had had her call me on speaker phone up until that time. L was 3.5 years old. That worked once. I would say, "I can't hear you very well when you're on the speaker phone. I need you to talk into the handset, not the speaker. The speaker hurts my ears." Then she would get on the phone and not have much to say, like any 3 year old. So, in my rebuttal to the nasty atty's questioning I testified that [I]one[/I] reason in particular I didn't talk on the phone much to L was that whenever I did the phone always went to speakerphone, and I didn't like that it could be heard and/or recorded. The judge ordered that I be allowed to speak to L on the phone any time that I pleased, and that it was to never be on the speakerphone unless I requested it. [/QUOTE]
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