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In addition, your ex-wife’s presumed “child-endangerment” charge from being arrested while driving could have been used for your benefit in a child-custody proceeding … but you (prematurely) gave it away.
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I am fully aware of that and I now regret my decision.
However at the time I made this decision, I didn’t have much choice, again for practical reason.
At this time, I was working in Orange County and commuting 80 miles each way daily.
There was no way I could be on time to pick up my daughter at daycare 5 days a week.
I had to work out a special schedule with my company so that I could take care of my daughter 3 days in the work week. But there was still 2 days out of the week where I had to leave for work at 5.30am and return home no sooner than 7.00pm.
As I mentioned before, I am a French expat and have no family here whatsoever which makes my job as a single father even more difficult.