I am a second wife. I have no problem with being a second wife. I have a better understand how countries like Canada and the US screw over non custiodal parents which more often than not are fathers. There a lot of non custiodial mothers that also get screwed over and it has shown me that our countries' justice system is a peice of crap when it comes to divorce and cusotdy hearings.
My own husband was screwed over because he was trying to be a good father and work with his ex wife by NOT fighting her on full custody. She took that and ran with it by not allowing us to see the girls on his visitations, fighting our every move, accusing us of the abuse she did on the girls, and denying the girls any contact with us or any family memebers on her side that agreed with us that she was a piss poor parents. And of course the courts sided with her by making Randy pay off the entire debt of their marriage regardless of the fact that she was in the marriage. Even though he wasn't making that much at the time of the divorce and she was making a few dollars more the courts slammed the shit out of my husband on child support, insurance and anything that insurance didn't cover. And anyone married to a non custiodal parent knows that the non custiodal parent not only pays all that out because they want to take care of their children but they also set up the kids their own bedrooms, have clothes at their hosues that they pay for because a lot of custiodal parents don't send or give the kids clothes to go to visit their other parents. And that non custiodal parents also step up to the plate and help out by paying for things that the custiodal parent either can't or refuses to pay because they want to do something else with the child support money then take care of the children.
While my husband was going through his divorce and getting screwed over by the US courts, we read many many news articles out of Canada on how the Canadian Court System is 100 times worse on Non custidoal parents. So bad that non custiodal parents in Canada have a severly high sucide rate because the courts up there require outragoius amounts of money from the non custiodal parents even when the custiodal parents agree with the non custiodal parents! One case that we read about was of a gentleman that was recently laid off and with his lawyer and his ex wife and her lawyer worked out that he would pay what he could for support now and when he got a job would pay more and the back amounts. A court of law stepped in for no reason and demanded the man pay 1500 a month for 1 child, added alimony that his ex wife NEVER asked for and threw him in jail for a month for not paying anything because he couldn't! The man lost his apartment, his car, and was with out a job. Not because of his ex wife but because of hte court!
Now my brother is going through some shit which I still can't go into complete details over. He is basically getting screwed over by the CA court system and the military. Or I should say they are trying to screw him over. I think it is pretty bad that these court systems have set it up to believe every lil thing one spouse/parent has to say over another. Especially when it has been proven time and time again that the parent/spouse tha thas to defend themselves and gets raked over the coals is the better parent.
Now I just read that a NJ judge is allowing a mother to move to Japan with a divorced couple's 7 year old daughter. I am not sure if mom is a permenant citizen of the US or not but she is Japanesse. Dad is a US citizen. The dad is worried about ever seeing his daughter again which he has good cause. Japan is one of the few countries that didn't sign an international agreement on kidnapping and enforcing other countries parental rights. Mom is not going to be able to make enough money to send daughter home 3 times a year like US courts say she has to and if she chooses not to let her daughter have any contact with her dad, then dad has no recourse. This is terrible. The Judge who is allowing this sees no problem with allowing the mother and daughter to move back to Japan! NO PROBLEM! The problem is that the father will most likely never see his daughter again and the court is allowing the mother in a round about way do a kidnapping of the daughter.
Got to love getting screwed by your own country just because you are smart enough to realize that the other parent has more time for the child due to your job. Got to love getting screwed by your own country for putting your life on the line for the military and your wife is telling your child that your dead or don't want to see them and the military and state dhs won't do anything about it because your going through a divorce. Got to love getting screwed by your country for having the balls to say HEY why can't they pay out the ass for their child like I am doing!
This country needs a reality check and start realizing that children need both parents!