Father's Rights...are there any?
What happens when a guy has been cleaned out by the little lady of the house. Say they've recently separated. He's wiped out over $40, 000. 00 of credit card debt that she incurred because he's a nice guy and he wanted to give her a clean start. The money he paid it all off with, came from a disability settlement because he's unable to work?
In fact they've been living in the house for years, rent free, that his family owns.
He buy's a year supply of fuel for the house. The check he gave came from a separate checking account he opened in his name because he knows they are splitting.
Knowing that he just paid a couple thousand dollars for fuel in advance for the house, she calls up the company and cancells the fuel delivery. She intercepts the refund check, and takes it to another state, forges her estranged husbands name to the refund check and deposits it into a branch bank account that was still on both their names, and withdraws the funds, leaving about $10.00 in the account.
Weeks later, she takes the children and leaves. He doesn't know about the fuel until a representative goes to the house and asks him if they cancelled the oil because they're moving out or what?
After talking to the rep, he manages to get a copy of the check, front and back, and see's that she's written his name to cash the check.
Used and abused and violated, what is a father supposed to do in a case like this. Are his young children going to grow up to be taught calculating, manipulative and criminal behavior from one who undoubtedly lacks a sense of honesty decency and fair play? Or does he prosecute the criminal act to the full extent of the law and fight for custody of the minor children?
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