Well, that e-mail I started this thread off with? Guess what I just found out?

It was written by her father - and she just made a few small changes (the last sentence is hers).

Basically, she's turned into a puppet of her parents.

And now, at their encouragement, she's going to file a restraining order against me - even though there's no chance I can afford to fly down there to see the kids anytime soon. In order to get one, she's going to have to lie - there's no abuse, but I'm sure at her parent's encouragement, she;ll invent some.

I finally paid the lawyer the retainer. Well - bye, by to all my progress on paying down the debt this summer/