27 July 2013

I get an email this morning from my ex, one of the things she said was,

"According to your availability regular webcam schedule is 7pm Saturdays and 7pm Fridays and Sundays with 24 hour notice.  I work all of the webcam times, therefore if there is an issue I will not be able to address immediately."


She wrote the last sentence for 2 reasons.  1) She wanted to absolve herself of any responsibility of the kids not being online at the scheduled time, and 2) She knew they wouldn't be online today.

Of course, I took screenshots of them being Offline, but it doesn't really matter.  I called the number she gave me several times.  The first couple it rang, then it started going straight to voicemail - meaning she turned off the phone.  I left a message.  I emailed saying I was online.  No response.

I just spoke with the kids yesterday.  They were super excited to play their game today (which I spent all day working on just for tonight).  But I should've expected this.

She also wrote in her email that the kids would call me every day, an hour before I went to school.  I responded that this was overkill and completely unnecessary.  First, the kids don't need to call me every single day (especially little kids that don't like talking on the phone to begin with).  Second, I don't have a cell phone so I'd have to wait around for them to call every day, and that's ridiculous.  Not to mention I might actually want to go do other things and go straight to school from there.  But this was just another attempt of hers to probe into my weekly schedule and be disruptive.  I know for a fact the kids don't want to talk on the phone every single day.  That was her device.

I'm writing this because her lawyer just went to court yesterday and confirmed with the judge the Saturdays at 7pm.  So this is, technically, her first violation of the new agreement.  (She had twelve violations of the last one and that didn't count for anything, so I doubt these will either).  I'm just recording it to see how many times she can ignore and violate court orders with absolutely no penalty whatsoever.

I'm sure there's a lot of you out there who have experienced similarly frustrating circumstances.  I'm sorry that you have to endure this US court system nonsense.