In general, I wonder how visitations work both logistically and financially when a 7 year-old child lives in Washington state and the other parent in Michigan.EEllis wrote:OK found some more info out finally. This is the situation from my understanding. The Mother filed a petition with the court a year ago to redress custody. There was a scheduled hearing where the child was ordered to attend. Either the Father or the daughter had to be there and even tho the father was deployed he could of had his daughter attend the hearing with his wife and attorney. At that point the court was told that the father was deployed but there was never a motion to delay or postpone the case until the hearing when the court was told the father was deployed. There was also visitation orders that have not been followed seemingly since before he was deployed. So the violation would be an ongoing issue separate from his deployment. Now these are just claims right now so it doesn't mean that I think anything one way or the other. The judge waved the warrant if the wife would bring the girl to scheduled visitation from the very beginning. The judge later granted a stay based on his being deployed but still will be having a custody hearing with the mother. I will say that for all the histrionics the basic issue was that the guy's lawyer didn't go to the court for a continuance, instead waiting until the hearing itself to bring it up. That and being deployed wouldn't allow one to ignore visitations.
It's not like me driving to the ex's house on the other side of town and dropping the child off for the weekend.