Temporary Euphoria

Well, our excitement about yesterday's discovery about the daycare lasted about 4 hours.

After work, I called the City of Seattle to see if they would tell me if, in fact, Jana is receiving this daycare stipend.

Of course, the guy said that he couldn't verify anything because of privacy laws.

So I told him the situation and he said that if she is making $50,000/year, they give $315/month toward her daycare.

BUT then he said, "In situations where the father is paying half and the mother is paying half, our rule is that this stipend only goes toward the person who is a resident of Seattle's half of the daycare. So the Charles still has to pay half of the full amount."

I told him that is not fair!

And he said, "We give out the money and technically how the parents want to divide the rest is up to them. We don't regulate that. But she is technically playing fair if she applies that $315 to only her half. And if she wants to just work out with you to split the remainder, that's fine too."

So Jana is technically NOT committing fraud and Charles would still have to pay $375/month (1/2 of $750) and Jana would only have to pay $60/month for daycare.

THAT IS NOT FAIR!

Plus, the guy said that no daycare can disclose if they are, in fact, receiving the stipend for Ava. So there is no way to verify it unless we subpoena it. And we KNOW she HAS to be getting it. That's the only way it makes sense.

So anyway, we're going to discuss all of this with the lawyer tomorrow and we may just go to court.

The other thing that was interesting - we looked at Mr. X's rap sheet from the WA state courts and looked at the dates and he has all these harrassment charges and domestic violence charges and then we looked at the dates - they were all surrounding the birth of his daughter he had with Jana. We assume that he probably wanted to have something to do with the child and Jana didn't want him to, so she filed harrassment charges, etc. whenever he would come around, asserting his rights.

So, that is an answer to our prayers whether we should have visitation. Jana is going to set up Charles if he comes around and press harrassment charges and things to prevent him from getting his paternal rights. She plays the system really well.

So, the only other thing is - IF we pursue and get visitation, Charles will have to call a police escort when he goes there so that he's protected.

So the fight continues................