I just came back from meeting with my divorce attorney. I feel really good after meeting with her. She was really positive about my situation. Apparently I will be in a good situation for custody, homeschooling, alimony, and everything according to her. She said not to worry about H's "intimidation tactics" she called them: he had threatened to tell the Court I was crazy, I'd be working at McDonalds, etc.
I told her I just wanted to wait until H filed, which she said could be never because of the fact that he will have to pay she thinks permanent alimony, etc (I don't think H knows that yet though!). She thinks I should file first and soon b/c of H's affair and verbal abuse and "I'm not getting any younger". I told her I did think the situation would be resolved by October, probably H will file for divorce and if not, by some rare chance if he decides to give our marriage a try, we would go to marriage counseling instead, and H is going to counseling for his anger issues. Karen43