My daughter and her husband came in for a visit Thursday. Her husband has a daughter. He went to pick her up, found her hair dirty and nobody said a word at that time. My grandson went with my daughter, and she brought him back before she got on the road to return to Marietta, GA.
Yesterday, we were on the phone, and she was telling me how her husband wants to get custody of his daughter because his daughter and my grandson both went to Kindergarten together, but my grandson can read and his daughter cannot. But at that point, my daughter got a call from her husband, and I was put on hold. When she returned and we resumed our conversation, she was telling me that the grandmother of his daughter (not his mother) called him up to tell him school is beginning here on Tuesday and she has no uniforms or shoes to wear. The grandmother went on to tell him that the only thing she gets from child support is $20. They wanted him to send money so they could use for whatever reason they deemed. Before you take sides here, I know something of this situation. I know that his daughter's mother is a drug addict. She would constantly hang around my house to rip off my brother in-law who was getting a disability check. The thing is, my brother in-law would give her his check and the shirt off his back. I was in the bedroom with my husband when this woman, my cousin and my brother in-law returned. He was sloppy drunk and passed out in the floor. My cousin called my husband and told him they needed help. They didn't need help per se; they needed a scapegoat to be blamed when they stole his money. I asked him what was he going up there for when they are going to set him up as the fall guy. The next day, my words became true in that my brother in-law told everyone that my husband and I stole his money. At that point, I went off. I told them that the only two people in his room was this woman and my cousin, and I don't steal; I prefer to ask for it. This woman just got of jail last year, and she has two other children (my daughter's husband is not the father of them) but they are spending his daughter's child support on them. My husband wanted to know why I didn't like this woman, and I told him that I was told the woman told his sister that we were stealing from his brother, which was an outright lie.
Last night, I got three texts from my daughter. The mother of her husband's daughter called to say all the child needed was shoes, and why do he want to take custody of his daughter. She accused him of not paying child support. My daughter told me that, when they moved to Georgia and he began working at Wal-Mart, she saw his child support papers and the payments they would be taking from his check every two weeks. I suspect that they are calling because the grandmother told him he could get his daughter. It is going to take money out of that house, since the grandmother is taking care of his daughter, the other children, and has a full house of children as well besides that. My question is that, if it was so crucial, the man was in town as long as my daughter was and they said nothing because they know full well he would have cursed them out. My daughter texted me today to tell me that her husband plans to get his daughter, so she plans to get my grandson as well, because she wants him there with her. I want to know your opinion. Is it right to take a child support check and split it between three children when the other two children are not yours? I said he needs to make a complaint with Child Support. Your take on this?