> I have a dilemma. I am a father of 3 beautiful children and I am the
> custodial parent. Through a court order (divorce) I was awarded
> custody and we were given joint visitation rights. She is allowed to
> see them one day during the week and every other weekend, and then
> half the summer, winter & spring break. Now this is my peoblem...she
> has never been stable...moving back and forth between different states
> over the past 5 years. When she has taken them she tries to keep them
> from me, not giving me her phone number or address. She even came down
> to the state I lived in with the pretense that she was moving there
> and she was going to find a job. I, like an idiot believed in her, and
> 3 days after she got here, I went to work and she took off with the
> kids to her home state. She had the plane tickets and everything. I
> had to file an Emergency Motion with the courts to have her return the
> kids. And another time she had them for the summer and she didn't
> bring them back and I had to go to the courts again and speak to the
> judge. We did a phone conference and she was ordered to bring them
> back. When I left the court room she called me back and told me she
> wasn't bringing them back so I went back upstairs to the judge and the
> bailiff heard her say what she did and I was given time with the judge
> again. The judge heard her and she was shocked. She was then really
> ordered to compply righ then and there, but I had to go get them and
> in the process hurt my job situation.

> Well there is more, but you get the drift, she like to take off with
> my kids. Now supposedly she's a changed woman and she wants to be in
> their lives after 2 years of not even seeing them and rarely calling
> them. But I am afraid she will run off with them again. I have since
> moved to a new state and I have not made 6 months here yet to have
> jurisdiction and she wants to take them for some time now in the
> summer. She says she is coming to stay here for a few weeks to find a
> home and a job and she want to spend it with them. I know she will run
> with them...but if I fight her on picking them up she will just bring
> the cops and in the court order it says she can have them for half the
> summer. What can I do to cover myself? I cannot trust her nor do I
> want to, and she has done it 2 times before. How can I prevent her
> from taking them anywhere by herself until I make the 6 months here?
> Can I enforce supervised visits? Is that allowed? Can I go to the cops
> first and mention the way she has taken them before?

> I'm very worried and she will be out here next week. Please help!

> Thanks