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Hi, My situation is this, I have a 10 month old daughter. I am currently seperated from her father. We were married in Michigan and reside in Ohio. I currently am staying with my sister in Rhode Island. I have been here for a week. I left Ohio a month before and stayed with my mother in Michigan. Right now I am confused on the laws and what I need to do. I didn't kidnap my daughter, there is no legal custody case anywhere. My astranged husband knows where I am and has phone contact with our daughter each night before I put her to bed. My question is this: Our relationship was verbally abusive and just started being violent before I left. I am terrified of my husband. When he yells at me and confronts me I totally shut down. He was screaming and yelling and trying to take our daughter when I left Ohio and the Crisis hotline told me to get as far away as possible, and so here I am. He is addicted to porn and internet web sex. I caught him watching it with our daughter on his lap. I am scared for my daughters safety because he can not control himself when he watches porn. He has repeatedly forced himself on me when I was pregnant and on bedrest and the doctors told him directly that we could not have intercourse. It didn't matter to him. He made me have sex with our daughter underneath me. I do not know what he is capable of, although he says he would never hurt her, I don't believe him. I called the child abuse people in Ohio but they said I didn't have enough proof to do anything but document the case. I am so upset because unless I catch him hurting her I can not stop this???? How do I go about getting temporary legal custody of my daughter while I am in RI so that he can not just come and take her away from me??? What steps should I take right now before I am suppose to go home? He is expecting me in Ohio at the end of this month because I am suppose to just be on a break from him... like an extended vacation, and then we are going to try to work things out. I don't think I can do that with everything that I know. There is so much and the abuse is just a small part of it, but the biggest in my mind.

Can anyone help me?

You need to tak to the RI family courtt about this. The court's phone number is 458-3330. Better you should go down there and ss if they can help you. The court is located on dorrance Street in Providience. Utilmately you want to file for divorce. You have to be a rresident of RI for 1 year to file for a divorce there. You could file in Ohio now. Be sire to tell the court staff, you're an Ohio resdient and there are no court orders from OH in effect.

Thank you. I just feel so lost right now. It is good to hear some sort of direction to start with.

Don't forget falso that you go for a consulation with a "family lawyer". They make a living handling this kind of stuff. Sone have free consulations and some charge some amount. :grin: