Both lawyers have gotten about $8000 so far. When my L saw that H had paid $4000 to his L, she asked for an extra $1500 from H over the $2500 retainer my brother lent me. Although he's not holding his breath waiting for H to pay him. He said he figured he would treat him like he treated his sister, i.e. dirt.
H was an absent dad before this year and I think he's been motivated to see the kids, and has upped the time seeing them the closer we get to D. I think it'll work out that after the D when there's no financial motivation, he'll become more of an absent dad again. I would agree to him seeing them as much as he wanted summer & holidays, but I don't think he would take advantage of that. He'd probably take them for 2 weeks or something in the summer and maybe Christmas or Thanksgiving for a week. The kids are old enough that if he couldn't handle it, they could tell me, and I also wonder when they get a bit older if they will want to visit him that much anyway. When they realize the kind of person he is. Although they seem to realize that now, but still love him. Karen
