Family Forum / Marriage / Divorce / June 2005

So what else is new?
 Ruling alters spousal support
 Jun. 29, 2005. 06:30 AM
 "...An Ontario Court of Appeal decision yesterday means divorced people in

Some of you may know me from alt.support.marriage
I've been married for almost 13 years and most of them have been
unhappy.  I have tried.  And tried.  And tried some more.  I have stuck
to the adage of: I will stay together for our daughter.  I have found

The following is making the rounds of MP's and News Organizations.
Does anyone have any other info?
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It was the Canadian Government who gave certain individuals the

Despite almost everything else going relatively smoothly in our planned
separation and divorce, I'm seeing where the 'dirty tricks' can come in
when dealing with our teenage children.

stbx just called. Lawyer sent her a bill for an extra $6k. That's after
$1500 last year, and $2500 this year so far.
Ugh.
- Saul

It has been over a year since I visited this newsgroup.  I dropped quite a
few messages back then but mostly just read what everyone else had to say.
I still see a few of the same names.
I have been divorced for almost a year and a half.  My ex dropped the "I

Ok,
What possessed me to come to a divorce group for dating advice?
I got what I deserved for lacking the faith in my own judgement.  I had
intended to walk down to her house, ring the door bell and say:

So, we're down to the spousal and child support and custody
arrangements mediation in a couple a days (two kids, soon to be 15 and
17 and a 19 yr old living out)

Excellent point...
Women have all the power in divorce court. If they want to be fair, the
court will be fair. If they want to lie/cheat, the court will side with
them.

free help at fathersrights.org

Tonight was our first night of this year's VBS (Vacation Bible
School), and I volunteered to help out. I also helped out last year,
just because I was taking my kids there every night so I would help
out with whatever was needed. This year I signed up ahead of time,

I'll try to make this as short as possible..,
My husband left nearly six years ago to live with the mother of his now
5 year-old child.
He left behind two preteens and a lovely toddler & me.

An abridged version of Arthur Schopenhauer's famous essay
On Women
The nature of the female
One needs only to see the way she is built to realize that woman is not

While I am mostly a lurker in this group, I think I could really use
some 'group wisdom' with my current co-parenting issue.
Some background: DD is 2 1/2.  Her father was very minimally involved
with her for about the first 1 1/2 years of her life - meaning he spent

To all the dads out there celebrating your special day -- Happy
Father's Day.  
I still have a letter my dad wrote me on what turned out to be our
last holiday together.  One of the things he said in the letter was