Day from hell 

I think today has to be the worst day of my life so far. I agreed to meet my stbx at the sheriff's department so he could get property he wanted, which was a digital camera and a gun. He also wanted to see his son before he left for his next duty station. He then took my son which he can. My son is considered joint assest in the state of georgia and since I don't as of yet have any legal documentation stating other wise. So I left the sheriff's department upset to say the least. Especially since he told me that he was within his right as his father. He then proceeded to tell me that if he decided to take him to his next duty station he was with in his right as well. Which is true. He then called me about an hour later and told me if I did not meet in with in 30 minutes and sign some sort of paper that he was taking my son and I would not hear from him again until he reached his next duty station. So I was freaking out he had our son who is two and then telling me basically I would never see him again until there was legal documentation stating that he had to return our son to the state of georgia. He also said that if I did not come alone that the deal was off. So I called HODAC and told them what was going on and then sent police to the meeting place and I got my son back and the legal services at HODAC are working with me to get an emergency TPO. I am hoping I hear something about that tomorrow morning. My son has been traumatized by this and the rest of the day if I was out of his line of site for even a second he would get upset and come looking for me to make sure I was still there and I had not disappeared. Further more when I arrived to get my son my stbx told me that he was not going to hand our son to me that our son had to come to me on his own free will.

I am sure between whatever my stbx told my son and have the police show up that it really scared him. I wish there were some better laws in place to help in this sort of situation. Also that children were not considered joint assets in the state of Georgia. My emotions are so raw from today and my eyes are so swollen from all the crying that I have done today because of this that I am hoping that I get some kind of sleep. I am really hoping that because of this insane situation that both my son and myself had to endure today that HODAC will be able to get me some sort of legal representation pro bono.....free.

my stbx also told me that he was not signing any paper work because of today and that his was going to volunteer to go to the desert for a year so I would have to wait a year to get divorced. Which is kinda BS as long and I get him served before he goes I will be fine according to the lawyers on base, which is what I plan to do. I am taking my paperwork to the courthouse to be signed or whatever and get the process going. I just have to work on finding out his new work address and I am going to have the military police do the serving and once he gets the divorce paper work he will have 30 days to answer. Which I am hoping that he is dumb enough to think that as long as he does not sign nothing will happen so I get what I want out of this divorce and be done with this nightmare. I am going to wash my hands of my stbx's family as well. They have supported everything his has done lately and they will be lucky if they even get a christmas card with an updated picture of my son in it at this point.