Weird day for sure. So we have 10 days to get our temporary order in after the judge ruled. Part of that order, which I stipulated to, is a child custody evaluation. So W states she fired her lawyer Monday after the hearing. Well I have to have the order in by Friday. She wants to sign a settlement, however, if her attorney doesn’t withdrawal we can’t go that route, and oh guess what, he hasn’t withdrawn. So my lawyer sent a letter stating we chose X for the child custody evaluation, I’m not having my lawyer right up a settlement until her lawyer withdrawals from the case.
So today my attorney, in the same building, and he knows I want to DB, shows up in my office with an apology and says her ya go. Well it is her attorney responding to our choice of a child custody evaluator. So someone is BS’ing me, either her attorney or her. Well I have been lied to by one particular party so I go with it. I text her and say do you know that X still thinks he is your lawyer, what is going on. I’m not letting down my guard, until I have a full commitment and that will be post D.
No answer all day. So I start to think it figures passed on past actions, luckily I wasn’t sucked in. So W calls when she got home from work. Didn’t go to OM’s, YAAA! I can hear her dryer through the phone, very distinctive sound. He could be there, but I doubt it. So she is offensive and asks what is going on.
I ask her what she means, she reads me a letter from her lawyer. “Apparently Mr. Atlas is hedging his bets, he has chosen a child custody evaluator, so your statement that mediation is occurring is false.” Basically he says I’m taking her for a ride and she better lawyer up. Well I explain to her that I have 10 days to comply with the judge our I’m in contempt of court. Then she reads me another letter where he calls her a bad mother for not trying harder. What a piece of work. She gets the picture and says she will call him tomorrow and without a doubt say he is fired.
After that we have a pretty good convo for about 20 minutes. Went very well, so both parties are suspicious and untrust’ED, little reference. Haha. I’m feeling really good about things, and she offered to dismiss tonight and says she never wanted it, but I held my ground and said I think it is better to leave behind the prior M, get the D, and then try and rebuild since the ruble will be out of the way. She agrees. We will see.
