Location: TX.
My husband and I decided we would divorce on Wednesday last week, on Thursday he drained our shared checking account of $8,000 then refused to tell me why or where the money went. I was able to get a early morning appointment Friday with a great lawyer to find out my options and get advice. As I was checking out I heard a receptionist say “sorry Mr (Unique last name) we are unable to represent you due to conflict of interest.” He found out I got there first then started kicking me off other shared savings accounts and changing passwords to different online accounts. Saturday when his paycheck went into the bank I was able to withdraw $3,000 of $6,500 before he drained the rest of the account again.
I went a head and filled a protection order per my lawyers advice to financially protect myself and young kids. He was served last night and told our eldest daughter I took a restraining order against him and kicked him out of the house. I also found out she’s been secretly recording private conversations between me and her brothers (just normal conversations nothing about spouse) and sending it to him. I took her phone away to look through the recordings but did not look through her text messages with her dad. She got upset and told me her dad said I’m not allowed to look through her phone, demanded I give her phone back and wanted to call her dad. I told her she could call her dad back after I was finished or she could borrow her brother‘s phone who is asleep. She proceeded to call him while I looked through the phone. When I walked outside I heard her talking to someone that was not her dad and it turned out, she was talking to 911. He had told her to call 911 and he also called in a wellness check. I fortunately have a blink camera inside my house and it recorded the whole interaction. Police said I was well within my rights to take away the phone, I didn’t cause any bodily harm and they told her that making phone calls to 911 should only be for emergencies, fire or if someone’s in danger. But because he had called in a wellness check they had to come inside my home check on the rest of my children who were sleeping and had to write up a report that they came and checked everything out but everything was okay. My daughter is now upset with me calling me a liar saying I have no reason to be afraid and I’ve taken her dad away from her.
I’m waiting to hear back from my lawyer, but in the meantime, does this hurt or help my case?