Golgotha Tenement

How cold-hearted would you have to be in order to leave a child in a house with a pedophile while you go to school?

What kind of returns could that child expect from the education, and does it make up for the psychoses he would suffer from the experience?

These are the questions before me. It starts with a simple, "I can leave him in this state and complete my degree. I wouldn't get much time with him anyway, so no harm there..."

But this isn't about me, so I have to review the effects on HIM. I also ask his opinion on this, but he doesn't seem to know either way, or care. He's 10.

Some suggest that waiting another 2 years and getting the recommended re-evaluation might be a good idea. But my G.I. Bill runs out, and I'm not sure if I'd be accepted by then... plus the job opportunities dwindle as we reach that point in time. We must move quickly, if we are to move at all.

My wife raises some valid points about our economic condition (bad) and possibilities (nil) inside the state. I think there's a bit I can do, but I admit that it looks ugly.

At any rate, I present the findings of the Court regarding us, in hopes that they serve both myself and others:

1) I said a bunch of stuff, proposed a good parenting time schedule (save the drive time) and the court feels that my reasons for moving were marginal, and not really in Ultrason's best interests.

2) Respondent bitches because of travel time and that the court cannot fashion a reasonable visitation schedule.

3) See #1, except that I tried to decieve the court by telling them that I'd been accepted the the biomedical engineering program at U.U. when, in fact, I have not. Also, The Child can get just as good an education in Colorado as in Utah, thankyouverymuch.

4) The court finds the bitch's fears justified, because the paperwork from our last proceeding requires her to do all the driving.

5) Education for the child, evidence lacking.

6) Both parties are loving, caring parents.

7) The extended family thing is a factor, but is mitigated because he can see and hear them pretty frequently in Colorado, or through visiting them in Utah.
(This means that they don't live far enough away for visitation to be a problem. Interesting, that.)

8) The Court can't fashion a reasonable parenting schedule out of this, so we're going to let you hang and tell you to keep everything as is, because it's clearly fine.

And, finally, if the petitioner, that lying weasel, leaves the state regardless, he'll have to drop the kid at the respondent's on the way out.

No resolution, no nothing. No change. The more sugar I ingest, the more I feel like doing some axe kicks or maybe killing orcs.

Killing orcs is good.

"There's a little epilogue to my tale of sadness" - Bart Simpson

Child support. We've been pursuing this issue for some time, although not as actively as we should've. Since 1999 there has been a motion to get this stuff recalculated, and it has yet to be so. I'm thinking that anything is better than $90/month.

Currently I'm thinking that flaming gorillas could gang-rape my ex, using Cacti when they got bored, and I'd pay for front row seats. But mostly I'm annoyed at the court for not seeing what's blatantly there.