Help Desperately Needed For Painful Custody Battle

My name is Graeme Westwood. I'm a hands-on, devoted, and loving dad of two beautiful young children. They are my life, and my everything.

I was always my children's primary carer, a stay-at-home dad, who's been dedicated to their lives, raising them, and nurturing them for so long now.

But now it looks like they'll be taken away from me.

My wife and I separated a while back, and she has now filed for divorce. Having always verbally agreed we'd share joint custody, I was shocked when she petitioned for full custody of our two young children.

With full custody she plans to move our kids from California to Puerto Rico, to live with her boyfriend.

I'm devastated. Barely ever seeing my kids is too much to bear. Right up to our separation I was the primary carer of our kids, while he was the breadwinner. My wife was absent through her work so often, that I was practically mom and dad rolled into one. But this was a situation we both agreed to, and I loved my role, my bond with my kids, and the simple joy of being with them every day.

I'm now obviously faced with a legal battle, and desperately need to hire an attorney. But, I simply don't have the resources to do this. My wife spent all the savings we had, I don't have friends or family who can help with the sum I'm looking for, I have no assets I can fall back on, and since we separated I haven't been able to keep up with loan payments and I'm now not eligible for credit.

I'm also not eligible for free legal aid from the court, because my monthly salary is slightly above the level needed for eligibility. This seems wrong and unfair, considering I can barely pay my rent at the moment, let alone eat.

I simply have nowhere or no-one to turn to.

I know I have good grounds to fight against my wife's intentions, and eventually get her to pay legal fees and alimony, but that's all a process that takes time. She has also hired a top lawyer, and I know that if I attempt to represent myself I'll get eaten alive. To avoid that, I desperately need help now.

To add salt to the wound, my wife has now refused me access to my children, and given no reasons.

Again, I know this is a fight I can win, and not a lost cause, but I just simply can't raise the money to do this.

I desperately need in the region of $7000, but any donations, however small, would be gratefully accepted.

Please help me. This will be a classic scenario of the rich defeating the poor, on an unfair playing field, This shouldn't happen, and it isn't right, and it's breaking my heart every second of every day.

Thank you so kindly, and god bless.

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