We filed the application for custody this morning. Tomorrow we must have C served with the document and she will have 30 days to contest it. I explained it to her on the phone so she wouldn't freak out and she was surprisingly receptive. Of course it's always difficult to know whether a positive mood will last but I'm hoping it does. I told her, truthfully, that when she manages to get off the drugs that she can apply to have custody revert back to her and that we will happily agree to it. The built-in protection there is that if she requests to have custody returned to her when she is NOT sober we can contest it and then she would need to provide evidence of her sobriety (ie: drug testing) to make it happen. While we have no desire to "steal" her child, we want little J to be safe. This seems to be the most definite way to get there.


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