Right now I'm in the middle of a similar situation. I'm going through a messy divorce, my ex had verbally, emotionally and sexually abused me for almost 11 years. I finally took a stand, filed for divorce and moved myself and the kids. The battle away from him, prompted us to file a domestic violence suit on him. But because I had no witnesses that would testify on my behalf and was unable to convince the judge that the acquisations in my claim were real, they dismissed it. It was decided that the kids would stay with me and he would have visitation.
The first weekly night of visitation, the kids didn't call me. I called my son's daycare the next day and was told his dad wasn't bringing him. I called my daughter's elementary school and she wasn't there either. A couple of hours later I get a call from the Department of Children and Families (DCF) - I was told they had gotten a call to investigate acquisations that my children were being verbally, physically and possibly sexually abused by my boyfriend. I have no boyfriend, I don't understand what this investigator from DCF is telling me. It's all a lie that my ex had conjured together and said the kids said this person was hitting them, calling them names, watching them sleep. My daughter just turned 7, my son 3 and a half. The kids were interviewed, it was mentioned they thought while in his car he'd been drinking but not enough to cause any alarm and the kids appeared to be happy. They left them there with him, they didn't come home that day like they were supposed to. They then told me that the Child Protective Team would be interviewing my daughter the following day. Which when they did they ending up not finding anything - but yet my daughter had been put thru all of this. There was nothing to find. They thought that her dad had coached her to telling this story. In the midst of this, the case wasn't closed so it couldn't be admitted into court, when we had a temporary custody hearing. My ex accused me of being emotionally unstable because on two occasions I was given Prozac to help me deal with the stress of working full time, raising two small children, going to school and taking care of everything inside and outside the home. I quite taking it because it wasn't the answer to the situation - a pill wasn't the fix to the problems. But because of that they assumed it was the root of all the issues and made me look like the unstable parent.
Still somewhat under his domineering control, I froze in court and tried to defend myself, but it didn't work. I was emotional and he was as calm as a cucumber. Pervirbial liars I have found are credible witnesses to the Judge. The court deemed custody based on pyschological evaluations. We did that with a court appointed pyschologist. My ex said that our daughter had made up the lie and he reacted upon it. I saw the detailed description of this supposed boyfriend in a report - there is no way a person as such could be created by a six year old unless he actually existed and was in the day to day lives of these kids. The even scarier part was realizing he had conjured together a description of characteristics of my ex fiance and a few ex boyfriends that I had over 20 years ago. The pyschologist recommended 50/50 visitation, one week with dad, one with mom. And right now that is what I'm stuck with. Even though I know he lied to the court, lied to the pyschologist and put his kids through all of this, he still has rights. I did nothing wrong and I'm the one having my kids taken away a week at a time. I'm the bad person here for leaving a man who stood before court and said, even with her flaws, she's still a good mother, I still love her and want to work it out. I am the bad mom for seperating her kids from their father, all I was doing was getting us away from the abuse.
Proving that to the court, good luck, it's like your invisable. Because my ex said I'm the liar, they believe him. This is where I'm at right now, final judgement day is being set and I've got a couple of months to prove he's the unfit parent. I'm the one being accused of not stepping up to the plate and stopping something that never, ever happened and the legal system can't see through this. It's unbelievable. I've also been told that many times that when there are custody issues, the unfit parent abuses the legal system to get their way. I need help with this. If anyone has any advice on how to prove that I'm not the guilty one here, just an honest mom and he's the liar I would greatly appreciate it