I have a friend who lives in Nebraska, her ex has full custody of her 2 children. Sometimes he violates their court order. Is there an office or agency in Nebraska that she can contact to enforce the court orders when he breaks them? I live in Michigan and we have the Friend of the Court office to enforce those types of things. My friend says he can violate orders and there is nothing she can do. Im not sure what exactly her court orders say but I think right now she only gets visitation when he says its Ok. He is moving the kids to texas this summer and he wont tell her when they are moving and refuses to give her an address or phone number of where they are moving too. I was totally shocked when she told me this. Even if he does have full custody, isnt he legally obligated to tell her where they are moving to and give her their new phone number? What if something happened and she needed to reach her kids? What if she had to move or change her phone number, how would they reach her? Ive told her many times to get a lawyer and go back to court but she just doesnt have the money to hire a lawyer. Its a long story of how she lost her kids. She originally had joint physical custody but says she "spanked her kids once" and that is how her ex got full custody. I know there is more to the story that she isnt telling me but I honestly dont think she abused her kids. I met her ex once and I dont like this man. He is very controlling and verbally abusive towards her. He yelled at her in front of all our classmates at our high school reunion a few years ago. My friend loves her children and wants to spend more time with them and for awhile her ex was lettingher see the kids but then he gets weird on her and wont let her see them or talk to them. He had a PPO against her because she drove past his house once (what she says) and if she calls her kids and he is in a bad mood he tries to have her arrested all the time. I guess she is only allowed to call her kids at a certain time of the night. Her ex will listen in on the other phone and if he doesnt like what she is saying to the kids he will hang up on her. She tries to call back and he calls the cops on her. I know this is a messed up situation and although she is my friend I know she is confused and does things she shouldnt. But her ex is just as bad. I think he is trying to push her out of the kids lives permanently. I think thats the reason he is moving to texas, is to get the kids away from her. Although he does have full custody (and maybe thats a good thing) I still think she should have some type of visitation in writing, specific days. Her situation is such a mess. Sorry for confusing everyone but basically is there an agency that could help my friend short of going back to court? She does have some emotional problems and she is seeing a counselor. Her life fell apart when her husband left her for another woman and I can totally understand her emotional problems, which seem to have started after he left her. She is the type of person who doesnt think before she acts and does things that can get her into trouble but its such trival things and her ex makes a mountain out of a molehill. Does anyone have some advice that I could forward on to her? Thank You.
Khawk
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