Donate to Keep Doug and Evelyn Together: Legal Defense Fund

I'm setting this up to help support my husbands (Doug) legal fees for an extremely long and draining custody battle in which he has already spent 40k plus dollars on. As many already know, Doug has been fighting for his rights as a father for 5 years now. He has already gone to court twice to fight to keep his rights as a parent and to be in his daughters (Evelyn) life. We wouldn't normally do this type of thing but good attorneys are expensive and we are dealing with replacing a vehicle and preparing for another baby.

Thankfully, Doug got to be there for the birth of his daughter. It has been a lifelong dream of his to be a daddy and it was finally happening. After only a week of becoming a father, Evelyn was withheld from him and blocked so he couldn't even reach out anymore to ask how his daughter was. He missed all the precious moments of watching his newborn baby grow. He didn't get to see her for several months after birth until he finally filed in court to get his parental rights. Even then, he was only allowed to see her one day a week until the court date, which was several more months away. Evelyn was 8 months old by the time he could have his day in court and get 50/50 custody of her. Mother has since filed, last December, to get full custody of Evelyn. They had a court date in October and judge ruled to keep it 50/50. However, Doug and Evelyn's mother live in 2 different cities that are 1.5-2 hours away from each other. Evelyn is about to start school and there is no way to keep 50/50. Someone has to become primary so Evelyn can attend school. Because of that, Doug did appeal and now they will get their final judgment this July right before school starts.

Doug has faced many challenges and false allegations thrown at him during this whole process. The first time around in court Evelyn's mom tried to file a restraining order against him and accuse him of harming her, Evelyn, and her son from a previous marriage. It was a tactic to help take away custody rights and it failed after she admitted in court he had never done anything but she "feared" he would. The 2nd time around, this last October, she showed up to court and tried to accuse him of doing such an outrageous, heinous act towards his own daughter. Being accused of doing such awful, sickening things to his daughter was just too much and too far. Again, she falsey accused him to try to take his daughter from him. Thankfully the judge did not fall for that nonsense.

Evelyn is now 5 years old and Doug is still fighting to be her dad and stay a part of her life. The difference between our households is that Doug is wanting mom to still have as much parenting time as possible outside of Evelyn attending school. It's best for Evelyn to have BOTH parents in her life. He has also never tried to make false allegations against her or keep her out of Evelyn's life. However, mom has stated in legal paperwork that she will "consider" giving dad "some" time with Evelyn throughout the year if she gets custody.

If you have it in your heart to help even a little, please help Doug prepare for the unknown and to be able to keep his daughter in his life and in her baby sisters lives (Adelyn + another little sis on the way). Please help us keep our family together.