Another ploy women use, in addition to crying physical and sexual abuse, is to take the children and not allow the father to see them so that when they do go to court the status quo is that they are living with mother and the judge will only give the fathers EOW and one dinner night during the week because they don’t want to disturb the routine of the children, it doesn’t usually matter that the mother withheld the children either.
That is the longest truest single sentence on the thread. :~)