why does a father have to fight anyone to get to see his kids? The real tragedy is that the dad died to see his children....the court and friend of the court system is sooo broken it is beyond belief
There is just no excuse for shoving and striking an 80yr old man.
Plus .. why was the father trying to TAKE the children from the home ..?? That’s another whole dynamic.
We’ve seen this type of case before, many times. The father comes and takes the children and the mother is left to search for them for years .. and some children are taken to foreign countries and never see the mother again.
And .. we have also seen mother’s do this very same thing to their children.
I’m thankful the grandfather was willing to step up and take charge. God bless him.
But can a grandfather reasonably stand between a father and his children?
No order from the court denying the father contact with his children was in effect. The mother and her family took it upon themselves to make that happen.
Multiple gunshot wounds is usually an indication that there was more than than self-defense in the mind of the shooter.
It’s hard to make a determination without having more information. Someone on the Houston Chronicle’s website posted an article from another site, stating that the police had received multiple calls to the residence before, but did not state the reason. More than likely, the grandfather will be protected under the Castle Doctrine. I don’t think you can determine what type of father he was by looking at his myspace page. I don’t know many people who come out and say “I’m a drug user and I’m abusive”. In addition to that, if you did go by their myspace pages, it seems that it was the father who was not over the mother. She’s his top friend and there are pictures of her all over his page (yet mrsboudreaux’s comments seem to dispute that). My father was a deadbeat dad who never paid child support to my mother, yet we still had to go on visitations with him until we were old enough to say we didn’t want to anymore. My cousin is twice divorced and has a son by each of his ex-wives. He’s a great father and has amicable visitation agreements with each of them. Without all of the facts, it’s hard to say what was going on in that family.
If it had been me, because I was at her Father’s home, when he said “go” I would have went.
If I could get the police to accompany me I may have returned.
The estranged husband, in my opinion, was in the wrong and judging by his actions was probably a bully.
If I had been the woman’s Father I would not have followed the guy out the door. Gun in my back pocket or not.
Granted that there is more to the story than was reported.
Cooler heads should always prevail.
I had a custody case with my kids that sounds similar to this one. My kids mother wouldn’t abide by the court order, and continuously harrased me and my family, but I never got violent until self defense was needed.
Yes it can be maddening for a father whose kids’ mother wont play fair, but that does not justify taking the situation to this point. The father should have pursued the legal option further.
Nothing allegedly about a gunshot wound to the chest or head. Who let this dummy write this article?