I might be missing something, but are you going for full custody? If so, shouldn't you be having your daughter 50/50 AT LEAST right now. How can she not LET you have her? SHe is your daughter as much as your wife's. I don't even get the every weekend thing. If you set precedence of your daughter being with her most of the time, that is what will be.....right?
I don't get the "she won't let me". You go and get her, and let her know you will call the police if she won't let you have your daughter. I would freak out if my H would not let me have my child. This is HER idea to leave you, so why are YOU the one not getting to have your child. It's like you are "visiting" your own daughter.
They abused a procedural process designed for deadbeat fathers in order to get an emergency hearing granting her temporary full custody without me having much of a chance to do anything. (They knee-jerk filed it when I hired an attorney) Getting every Saturday is better than what I was facing (2 Sundays a month for 6 hours) because it would have been rubber-stamped despite my evidence.
I had evidence (receipts, communication with W, etc.) to refute all the allegations - but my attorney advised me that it wouldn't matter, the temporary order would be rubber-stamped with "standard" visitation applied. My best option for the most time with D1 was to go for the "deal" they wanted to get out of the courthouse.
My long-term strategy is full custody. But it is unfortunately a long-term strategy. My Psych Eval hearing got pushed to May 12 due to the busy schedule.
"You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into."
