I am in Kuwait working and my mother is watching my kids while I am gone. There mother had not called for almost 3 weeks. Yesterday she called the kids and they told her I was gone. She tried come get my daughter from my mother. Normaly I am happy when she spends time with the kids, but she wont say where she is living or taking the kids. Her husband has 2 warrants out for his arrest and her sister saids they are staying with a guy who sells pain pills. Before I left I signed a paper giving my mother temp guardianship while I am gone. I had it notorised. Can she take the kids from my mother?

I am in Kuwait working and my mother is watching my kids while I am gone. There mother had not called for almost 3 weeks. Yesterday she called the kids and they told her I was gone. She tried come get my daughter from my mother. Normaly I am happy when she spends time with the kids, but she wont say where she is living or taking the kids. Her husband has 2 warrants out for his arrest and her sister saids they are staying with a guy who sells pain pills. Before I left I signed a paper giving my mother temp guardianship while I am gone. I had it notorised. Can she take the kids from my mother?

It depends:

IF there is a court order for visitation:

IF she is taking daughter during her allowed visitation time- yes she can pick child up from your mom.

IF she is trying to take daughter at "non visitation" time- no, she cannot pick child up from your mom.

IF there isn't any court orders allowing visitation:

No, she cannot pick daughter up from your mom.

Xena :)

THis particular time it was not her visitation period but she does have visitation. I feel like a hipocrit because I have griped at her for spending time with them lately, but I do not want my kids at a drug dealers house.

It is hard for me to get to a internet conection over here, so I asked my mother to sign up to this site. I hope you all help her out as much as you have helped me.

Thak you, Mike

THis particular time it was not her visitation period but she does have visitation. I feel like a hipocrit because I have griped at her for spending time with them lately, but I do not want my kids at a drug dealers house.

It is hard for me to get to a internet conection over here, so I asked my mother to sign up to this site. I hope you all help her out as much as you have helped me.

Thak you, Mike

Your Mom does not have to allow her to have the child at any time, other than the court ordered visitation time. Unfortunately without a modification she can take the child anywhere during her vistation time, so there isn't much you can do abot the drugdealer problem until you get back to the States. Sorry.

Will your Mom be using your same user name? I'll help her any way I can, and some others will also.
Xena :)

She will probably start her own acount, but it seems the problem has gone away. Thier mother has moved into her own place, I guess her sister and mother are helping her get out. I am not sure where it is yet, but as long as the kids are safe it is ok by me.

Thank you again!

Hi Mike! Wow I didn't know you were going over there :eek: ! Holla at me on yahoo whenever you get a chance, ok?

Hello! it is gona be a while before I can chat on yahoo, I am staying in a tent and have no internet. I have to go to a cafe and use there pc's.

I kind of have a similar, but also different situation. My husband is in Iraq. He just got there, but he's been gone training for about four months now. I have seen my step-sons VERY little since my husband left. I am thankful for what little time I get with them, but it's not enough for me. They have been my step-sons for eight years now. They were my children before my husband and I had children of our own. Even with my husband gone, I continue to pay for things like braces, all dental work, glasses, etc, even though we are not ordered to. I do it because I love them as my own. I feel like this country really needs to evaluate the step-parent rights in this country. There are too many extended families to ignore the issue. Additionally, my husband is over there defending our freedom, our rights as a nation. So why don't I have any rights as a step-parent while he is gone? Something has GOT to be done. I miss them SO much! My children miss them SO much! Yet it seems like no one cares. Why is that? Just because I am the second wife? She's the one that left him in the first place because she, "...was tired of him"!!! She didn't want to work out her issues, so she just got rid of him. Now, my husband, my step-sons, my other two children and I have to pay for that. Why is that? I need some answers!

There are alot of areas that need to be changed. In fact I cannot think of anything they laws are doing that realy is in the best interest of the children. It seems that your husbands X is not to concerned about her children either. If she was then she would try to help her kids to know there siblings. Good luck to you, and I hope your husband comes home safe. If it makes you feel any better things over here seem to be getting safer. Where his at in Iraq?

You are right. She is not very concerned about the boys at all. It's a power trip for her. I love those boys SO much! I worked on the Internet for about 4 hours last night, and will every night until I get something accomplished! I am preparing a public petition to put on the Internet. I'll have to let everyone know when I have it approved and on-line! I need as many signatures as I can get. Looks like someone started something like this once before, but I have the power of a very close community called the Army!! :) And I plan on using that power to my advantage!

My husband is actually in Kuwait right now awaiting transfer over to Iraq. We are just starting out this "adventure" in our lives. He can't tell me when they are going to Iraq, and he can't tell me where they will be yet.

Thanks so much for your input!!

He is in Kuwait? What Camp? I am in Camp Arafjan, Kuwait right now. Funny how small the world is.

Anyways good luck with the petition, and with your hubies X. Maybe she will one day realise what she is doing to the kids.

I'm not sure where in Kuwait he is. He didn't tell me. He is there with the 142nd B battery.

A very small world indeed!!!!

My husband was in the Army, and if I recall correctly no legal actions can be applied to you until you are back in the states.