Well, Daniel, Adam, Finesse and I all went to court this morning at 9:30 am. Kasandra and her mother were there with their attorney. When the court room opened up we all went in, but then Our attny asked to speak to Kasandra's attny. and they hashed out a deal and then each attny, brought it to their clients, it went back and forth a few times. And this is what we ended up with.
Each parent will get the girls for a whole month every other month, when that parent has the kids they will be named "Primary Cutodial Parent", Daniel will pay for all the airfare (which Adam and I will be paying...cuz he can't afford it), and Daniel will continue to make Kasandra's $400 car payment, that and the airfare will be in lieu of Child Support, and each parent should allow the other parent to speak to the girls freely while with the other parent (something Kasandra had not been doing...Daniel has only been allowed to speak to the girls 5 times in the 2 mos. she has been gone, in spite of his daily attempts), we will have a retired judge as a mediator starting in Feb of 2010 to begin mediation to get permanent orders in place....if we can't come to some sort of agreement, then it will go to court in September of 2010.
This will all start in Dec. I will fly down there on the 2nd of Dec. and get the girls ( she tried to fight us on returning them back to her by Christmas, cuz she wants to spend Christmas with them) but I told the Attny. that we would not budge on that. We have only seen the girls for 1 week in the 2 months that they have been gone. And like I said, Kasandra has only allowed Daniel to speak to the girls 5 times in that 2 mo. period, so we were not about to budge on that....So we ended up with the girls the full month in Dec.
Our attny. said that when she went up to have the judge sign the order, that the judge said that that is pretty close to how he would have resolved it as well.
So all in all...I guess it was a Good Day!
