I was married for fifteen years and had three children who were born in 1989, 1992, and 1994. I believed teenagers would be able to handle divorce but learned otherwise when my children were allowed to be bribed and brainwashed. After being divorced for three years my ex husband threatend to take my children and make me pay child support. Since he worked out of town most of the time and I had dedicated my life to my children by sacrificing a career to take them back and forth to school and multiple recreational activities, and according to my ex husband up until this point was "a wonderful mother", I was sure he could never take them. He spent $40,000.00 on an attorney, who picked the Guardian ad Litem, who picked a psycologist that was over an hour away. The Guardian ad Litem orchestrated an emergency hearing among other things. My ex husband lied on the stand, was not required to participate in Discovery, I was required to be Deposed while he was not, I was asked to leave status conference hearings, the Guardian ad Litem was very biased, and during the course of the past couple of years several other things that according to our constitution and laws should not have happened did. Every time I walked out of that courtroom I had less faith in the court system. Now even though I get my son every other weekend I have not seen my girls in over two years but still have to pay child support. Relationships were destroyed and the course of children's lives changed forever. I was also ordered to pay $20,000.00 for his attorney fees when I could not afford an attorney of my own. I have almost gone to jail twice for not being able to pay what the court ordered. This system does not work in the best interest of the children. It works for whoever has the most money. There are no parental rights, no fair and equal representation, double jeopardy does not apply here, and no accountabilty for attorney's and judges and especially Guardian ad Litems. There's no where for parents whose children are being used as weapons to get help. Maybe we can help each other now.