Hi there,
I am married with 3 kids and I moved out when my wife called the police around about 10 months ago, because I tried to move her away from my child's bed (she refused after I asked her a few times to let them sleep and stop escalating and causing drama). In hindsight, this was not the best approach on my part, she was not harmed in any way but she called the police to get a report on me and has since been using a whole lot of language around 'safety' around the kids and our email conversations making out that I am a violent person when I am quite the opposite.
She drinks and is often emotionally abusive towards me and the kids. She is alienating the kids against me behind closed doors.
After reading the reviews on google about the WA family court, I am afraid I am going to get creamed by all her manipulation. I can't afford a high-end lawyer, and my sense is if I go into this without one, I will get smashed and lose access to my kids when I am a good father, am not violent and have the capacity to raise them in a 50% custody situation.
She is a psychologist and I believe will be using psych reports about the kids, which she herself has lead, and kept private, to strengthen her case. How to do I go into this, with faith that the legal system will find the truth in our situation? Am I being totally naive to think that this will happen, or do I need to adopt the same vindictive and highly manipulative approach to counter what she is likely to dish out? I.e. Should I calmly state the facts as I see them, or should I be adopting a more military style approach for the sake of my kids?
Any help would be much appreciated.
I am married with 3 kids and I moved out when my wife called the police around about 10 months ago, because I tried to move her away from my child's bed (she refused after I asked her a few times to let them sleep and stop escalating and causing drama). In hindsight, this was not the best approach on my part, she was not harmed in any way but she called the police to get a report on me and has since been using a whole lot of language around 'safety' around the kids and our email conversations making out that I am a violent person when I am quite the opposite.
She drinks and is often emotionally abusive towards me and the kids. She is alienating the kids against me behind closed doors.
After reading the reviews on google about the WA family court, I am afraid I am going to get creamed by all her manipulation. I can't afford a high-end lawyer, and my sense is if I go into this without one, I will get smashed and lose access to my kids when I am a good father, am not violent and have the capacity to raise them in a 50% custody situation.
She is a psychologist and I believe will be using psych reports about the kids, which she herself has lead, and kept private, to strengthen her case. How to do I go into this, with faith that the legal system will find the truth in our situation? Am I being totally naive to think that this will happen, or do I need to adopt the same vindictive and highly manipulative approach to counter what she is likely to dish out? I.e. Should I calmly state the facts as I see them, or should I be adopting a more military style approach for the sake of my kids?
Any help would be much appreciated.