Messy divorce
Location: Georgia, usa.
My partner is going through a messy divorce in South Georgia. Her ex is trying to drag her name through mud inside the court and forfeit his parental rights to skip out on child support.
He is definitely a danger to the child, through a lot of emotional dangers, with his own self admitted disdain for small children, and has fought adamantly that he wants nothing to do with him. (Which he promised her to adopt a child within 2 years of marriage, but rolled that back 1 year, as he didnt want to "deal with damaged kids.")
Where it gets messy, I've been with her for the last 4 years, he encouraged and supported an extramarital relationship knowing she was polyamorous.
The attorney i paid over $5k for out of pocket to help her is suggesting she roll over and let him leave with no responsibility.
There is gigabytes of text and audio of arguments outside of normalized behavior to exemplify that he is emotionally and financially abusive, to include tax evasion.
This man has had 2 other wives that, I am not exaggerating, divorced him over 1 a bra, and 2 a pair of tennis shoes. She is unable to screen through old texts because he left that much damage in his wake.
Her expartner helped her adopt an embryo for IVF, and the child is now 17 months old.
He went along with the adoption, signed documents, he financially abandoned her after he started an argument over her wearing the wrong pair of eyeglasses during our lunch meetup after the embryo was implanted.
The court allowing him to sign over his rights sets a new illegally obtained precedent that the state of Georgia will allow adopters to abandon embryo adoptions at will. This attorney has failed to obtain any evidence to support her, has ignored calls for weeks on end, and gave every single reason not to be hired on day one. But a lack of options left us without many choices.
In the end, we really do not want his involvement, but the financial help for the child's care would help tremendously.
Please help. What can we do in this situation? Other lawyers want more than we have as a retainer.