The latest really kills me.  My son said today, "I want a new house for Christmas."
    My wife asked him, "Why do you want a new house?"
    He said, "Because my Mommy wants one."
    So, it looks like we will not only pay for the '95 Z-28, we will be paying for her new house as well.
    On 11/24/98, my wife called my ex and explained to her that we were struggling financially and needed to drop the child support to what Rule 32 actually calls for. DHR has it figured much less than the courts figured it, which sounds real suspicious to us. She blew it off and said she would get back to us. It just proves that she's blood sucking and the courts are behind her regardless. I have, however, sent this web site to the President Clinton, the First Lady, the Vice President Gore, Mrs. Gore, the governor of Alabama, where we reside, the legislature, and now these pages are going to the media. Let us see if there is any
compassion and fairness left in our judicial system.

    Strange how things work out.  In January of this year, my ex agreed with me to go back to court and reduce the child support to what Rule 32 says.  Due to her corrupt, lying lawyer, she managed to get above and beyond what Rule 32 calculated the child support at to begin with.  We agreed to go back to court without lawyers and let the judge set the amount., strictly by Rule 32.  AFter I filed the paper work, about three weeks past and I received a letter from her, you guest it, lawyer.  It said, Any future contact with my client will have to be directed through me as I have been retained as her lawyer.  September 18, 1999, my ex buys a 1999 Nissan Maxima, giving up her 95 Z-28 with less than 60,000 miles, and is taking me back to court for more child support, rather than a reduction, as we had agreed.  Funny how justice is served in this country.
 

 
    Just wanted to give everyone hope.  Hope that there is brighter days coming.  Though, I still don't see my son as much as I want, at least it's not because my ex-wife stands in the way anymore.  However, it probably is due to the past and the separation we endured.  He is a good boy who is making good grades and has me very proud.  He seems to want to stay around me the more he ages and becomes the young man he will.  Life between us all has gained much positive ground and it is all due to . . . prayer.
    Without prayer, there would have been no change.  We still have to pay child support.  Before I go any further, I want to say that any parent owes support of some kind to their child.  I think the money issue can be resolved different ways by contact and activity in the child's life by the parent.  The more a parent does for a child and is a part of their life, the less that non custodial parent should have to pay (to a degree).  There are just so many ways to work out arrangements so no one is slaughtered in the break-up of a marriage.  It's usually then when anger is getting the better part of the parent the court will 99% of the time side with.
    All that is errevelant at this point.  God has brought us through the heat of the fire and I'm here to give Him the praise He deserves for that.  My son is 9 years old now and I wouldn't take the universe for him.  Our relationships have gotten much better and I pray for my ex to prosper.  I hope she is blessed and finds someone who will love her the way a husband should love his wife, like Christ loved the church.
    If you are reading this and are going through the heat of the fire right now, God can sustain you.  Though my whole world fell down around me at one point.  God picked those pieces up and made a new statue out of the broken pieces of a different form.  No, I'm not like I was before all this, but, I am closer to Jesus than I have ever been.  I encourgage you to seek Him.  Find Him.  Let Him know you love Him.  Then, you will see His might power sustain you through the fire.  It doesn't mean the fires go away right away.  We as people have a tendency to slip away from Him when things are good or we are angry.  When things get rough we tend to lean on Him.  That is probably why the world is in such chaos now.
    Think of 9-11.  People really began to pray when those planes took down the towers and over 6000 people.  The U.S. had never seen such a blow on its soil.  Now, the trauma of that is not as prevalent as it was when it happened.  People are slipping away once again.  The wars may bring many to the church doors for that is prophecy being fulfilled and it is perplexing times.  Same is true in divorce.  It is a traumatic time in everyone's life involved.  You can't just go stick your head in the sand and it disappear.  Maybe, just maybe, the courts will wake up and feel like they should be fair for a change.  Maybe, just maybe, it won't be one sided as it has been in the past.  Maybe, the lawyers who have pushed to get the legislation like it is now will soon meet their reward for their hand in this.  They, like everyone else, are subject to God's judgment too.  You just have to remember to forgive them so you may be forgiven also.  That opens up God's right to work on your behalf.
    It does get better, but you have to do some things yourself first.  Line yourself up with Christ and He will take your burdens, giving you His, for His are light.  I'm praying for you all.  Amen!

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