OK, We have a date set for the evaluation, Friday March 27th it begins.....They will not start it until we pay them up front $9,000.00. Dean is responsible for 75% of the cost because Gail apparently only made 35,000 last year and has been laid off. She either quit or was fired....Nurses are not being laid off.

We are quickly approaching $50,000 in legal fees. Our credit cards are to the limit. Recap for my sanilty
So Max wants to come live with us.
His mother lies to the court and says he is mentally ill and should not be taken seriously.
The case is delayed and Gail never takes Max to the doctor.
Now we have to pay the cost of the evaluaiton.

Maybe the legal system is the one that needs mental help! Isn't a judge paid to hear the evidence and make these decisions? Why should we have to pay someone else? This is so screwed up.....

Justifiable Anger

Justifiable anger - Is is appropriate to get upset because a man straddles your 14 year old son and throws him against the wall? If you act out against that man who is displaying anger? Eric Henricks attacked my son and threw him against the wall.....I got upset in court - who is wrong? The mother sits backs and watches the child be abused, is she just as guilty?

48 hours and counting

We are 2 days away from court. Dean and I are confident (but not overly) that justice will be done and we will walk out with full custody of Max. Either way, I will be writing an Op-Ed and taking my story to the newspaper. What happened to us should NEVER happer to another person. Fathers have no rights when there is a divorce. We should not have had to spend 20K to get our boy away from an abusive mother and step father.

Snow Delay.

Well court was delayed today due to the fact that the judge could not get in - My office is open, I didn't know I had a choice! We have been fighting this battle since September 18th of 2007. Why would a mother and the court system put a child through this torture?

Fast forward

Max's mother has lost it years ago. In the last year she has showed up at Max class at high school during his first month there and stood behind him while in class. Imagine your mother showing up during your freshman year of high school, I would have died.... She has woken him up with a super soaker. She has called him a columbine kid, a sociopath, Bi-polar, schizophrenic. Gail's most most recent idiotic activity was withholding his accutane while calling him pizza face. We spent countless hours pleading with doctors to give a new prescription. Did I mention she called the police because he didn't want to go to Church? She has managed to postpone the court case 3 times and the commissioner Shook has agreed. She has told her son that she doesn't want to look at him but she is never going to let him live with his father. Instead she is planning to financially ruin us, and its working. Today we learned Gail is protesting the removal of a Commissioner Shook. That another 2K we have to spend to have a judge removed who stated in open court that she knows how Bi-Polar children can lie because she has a bi polar son. The judge should step down herself! How can this stuff go on..... She has called him a loser in front of his Friends. His step father under oath when asked if he loved Max responded by saying "define love". This is an educated man, a Doctor! I guess they don't teach vocabulary in medical school.

This morning Max asked his mom why he wont let him go live with his dad. His mom responded by telling Max she would if Max's dad wasn't crazy. Since it's Tuesday and that is the day we spend with Max Dean picked up Max and took him to see his therapist that he has seen for 8 years. Gail texted Max to ask where he was and he told her with his dad. She texted Dean that she had plans and hoer it is her day and how inconsiderate he is. Dean has picked up Max every Tuesday for the last 14 years. Then she sent a text that she and her husband were ill so Dean had to keep Max all night. 5 minutes later she sent a text stated all of her husbands kids were over for the night and how Dean ruined her family evening. She makes up the stuff as she goes along.

The scary thing is she is a nurse if you are ever treated by Gail Henrick or Dr Eric Henrick RUN these two are nuts.

Several health care providers have told Dean and I they suspect Max's mother suffers from Borderline personality disorder. I think she is just evil.

Return from Christmas Visitation.

My husband and I have been struggling to get custody of my 15 year old step-son Max for more than one year. At the beginning of the school year in 2007 Max told his mother Gail Henricks) he wanted to live with his dad 50% of the time. It went downhill for Max right then and there. that night his mother threw out his clothes and told him that he had to get used to Kmart because that's where his step-mom (me) shops. She also added that she would kill his animals ( Max has several pets). Max called his father Dean crying. Dean went to pick up Max late in September of 2007. We all made a late night shopping trip to Kohl's (Kmart is far from the house) and Petco to get Max the things he needed. Max stayed with us for about 10 days until Gail decided to come get him.

After an upsetting fall of 2007 capped off by Max's Step father, Dr Eric Henricks straddeling Max in a bean bag chair and holding him down by the wrist so that they could have a calm conversation with him ( i dont know about you but I find it difficuklt to have calm conversations with peoiple while I am beign straddeled by a 6'4' man as he holds my wrist down) Gail finally agreed to let Max live with us 50% of the time beginning in January 2008. It sounded like she was finally putting her son first. Dean sent a letter to Gail and asked her to sign legal papers that he could file with the court to reflect the new custody agreement, Gail changed he mind.