[joe fonebone]

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

[Disgusted in Texas]

While they are fixing that,they need to do something about deadbeat dads. Maybe the deceased Boudreaux was a deadbeat dad ,who wasn't supporting them and had no right to see his children.I have two ex sons-in-law. One is almost $12,000.00 behind in child support,the other is well over $20,000.00. In Ohio ,the moms and children suffer and the dads can send $50.00 a month and the judge smiles..
If Boudreaux had cared about his children ,he would have chosen a better time/place to act responsibly to visit with them. This way they were subjected to the horror of watching their grandpa attacked and their father killed. Way to go fella.

[Sacajaweau]

To start with...sounds like daddy is abusive...Shoving a grandfather protecting his child and grandchildren?? God bless him.

[epow]

why does a father have to fight anyone to get to see his kids?

He wasn't trying to just see his kids, he was trying to take them away from the grandfather's house. I realize that the courts sometimes make a mistake in giving custody to the mother, but this guy sounds like a hothead with a bad attitude. Or maybe there was bad blood between the father and grandfather.

In any case a younger man has no justifiable excuse for attacking an 80 YO man with a recent pacemaker implant. You may have had a bad experience in a custody case yourself, and if so I can understand your attitude. But unless I knew more details about the situation I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that the father was justified in what he tried to do.

[autumnraine]

“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”

He wasn’t trying to “see” his kids, he was trying to “Take” his kids.

And anyman that would strike an 80 year old man in the chest after recently having a pacemaker installed surgically probably isn’t the kind of guy you want kidnapping your children.

[Tammy8]

It depends on the situation- some mothers are vindictive but some fathers are drug addicts or have other issues where they have no business with the children. I would have to know the rest of this story to feel sorry about the dad not being able to get to see his children- there could be a really good reason.

My ex son-in-law is a meth addict/drug dealer and has only supervised visitation with his son. This state generally awards joint custody in nearly every case- yet my SIL had so many issues the judge didn’t even hesitate to give my daughter sole custody and supervised visitation only to the dad.

At one point in my daughter’s messy divorce the dad threatened to kill her and kidnap his son; trust me when I say if he had actually showed up to do that he would have been the one killed. She was staying with us for that very reason- but SIL knew hubby well enough to stay away from here.