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Thursday, January 15, 2009

Third Time "Isn't a Charm"

Since the middle of October when Keith was granted custody of Steven, Patty's new attorney has filed a motion once a month to try to overturn Judge Hartert's ruling. The first and second petitions were "denied" based on the fact that Keith was only given temporary custody--the custody issue will be readdressed in June. In other words, courts are unwilling to overturn a temporary order. But Patty, having received that response twice just filed a third petition claiming the same "poor me" issues. This time the court ruled that they would NEVER hear this motion, and to stop petitioning. They ruled to leave the order as it stood until the scheduled hearing in June 2009.

Einstein said it best when he stated, "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

1 comment:

dotmother said...

I'm so sorry that this is such an ongoing thing. It's like "The Song that Never Ends", only it's more like nails on chalkboard screeching.
Keith and Beth are wonderful how they are handling it all. They could write a book on rehabilitating children.
God Bless You All!