Dealing with WAW Part 3

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Ok, new twists and turns in the drama I call normal life these days. My W and I still have not come to any agreement regarding where our kids will live and where they go to school. School starts Wednesday in both areas, so we are really out of time. We are still living 4 hours apart at our respective parents. The current stalemate rests at she will let my kids go to the school here IF I pay for her apt. a car, and some other living expenses. Right now the kids are in her town, and I am afraid she will enroll them in what can easily be described as less than adequate schools just to keep them up there. I almost feel if I am being extorted.

At any rate, these are the options on the table.

1. The above. She moves down here. I move into an apt near the school (currently about 45 minutes from where I am) She moves into an apartment as well. Problem is I do not have the money to give her, nor commit to give her to make this happen.

2. She enrolls the kids in school up where she is. Remember is it a depressed county with huge unemployment in the middle of nowhere. Not exactly a place one can just move and find a way to make a decent living. This prevents me from being with my kids unless I do move up there.

3. Her dad floated the idea of us sharing an apartment in my area so my kids can go to school here. He will give her one of his cars if we do this, taking away that necessity.

4. I move back to our old town where we lived prior to S. I spend the rest of the year (1st semester of school) rebuilding and reestablishing my business down there and the kids will go to a school a few towns away from where W lives now for the 1st semester. After that, the kids will move down to our old town. During this time, it is on W to find a job and figure out her own living arrangements down there. It would have to be agreed to (with the blessing of my L) that doing this will not affect any custody arrangements in the future, and the kids will not be staying up there past December.

5. We BOTH move back to our old town in the same place, both have jobs and live separate lives basically. Probably will be toughest on me personally having her back in the same house and being where OM lives/lived. Her parents will not give her a car or assistance under this option.

6. I simply reply to her D petition, and fight it out for custody and let the cards fall where they do.

Fun times....