I moved away from my wife and children on 15 December 2005. We have a court date of 21 Mar 2006. I have been paying child support since I left and she is still denying me contact with my children. She says it's in the best interest of the children. Is this allowable? I haven't talked to my kids in almost 2.5 months. Also, my wife filed our taxes. She was suppose to let me see them before filing them. She filed them without my reviewing them and now she's keeping the money until the court date. Is that legal?

My wife left about a month ago and cleaned out all of our joint accounts. I was a widowed man with 2 boys ages 13 and 10 before I married her a year ago. My kids are mine, no adoption was ever done. She left a marriage to come to me and cleaned up in that marriage. She has her own seperate pre-marital money of over $300,000 in her name and I never asked to comingle that. However, what she did do was clean out 2 joint CD accounts totalling about 120k and our joint checking account of nearly 10k. One of the CDs was my children's college funds of $45,000 that had been saved from the their deceased mother's SSA survivor benefits. I'm at a loss here as to what I can get back. I have filed for divorce. She came back for a week at Christmas and then left after New Year's Day. What can I do?

Let me start out by saying I dont wan't to be divorced - my information is well documented on forum threads - yesterday my world came falling apart and I am in a bad place. Suffice it to say my wife called me at 1:00 and told me I needed to come home for the sake of the children -- I arrived home and she told me to take the girls somewhere so we could talk about our relationship - told me to take them to day care -- I agreed and left the house. I drove on my way to the day care but just felt that I should go back home - I turned around to go back and I got upstairs and she had cut both of her wrists - in earlier years she had taken about 20 tylenol pm with rampant thoughts of suicide and she then began to cut herself - arms and legs mostly - she has deep scars - I called 911 and they took her to the hospital - she refused to see me - called me all night telling me how much she hates me-- full of cursing and disdain - she is beligerent and violent - they transferred her to a mental unit and she is still there right now and the doctor is in the process of getting a court order to keep her there for evaluation against her will - she called me all night at least once an hour to tell me how much she hated me and despised me and I ruined her life and it was all my fault etc. and she told me to get her as much money as I possibly could and for me to file divorce first thing this morning. She says she has no rights or she would have already filed herself. She asked me to take money and her car up to the hospital and leave it there and she would leave all assets to me the three girls - the house etc - she just wanted as much money as I could come up with, -- as stated I dont want to be divorced - but I am more than concerned for the welfare of my children - if I am forced to file for divorce due to her request and to beat her to it since I am certain she will -- even though she is irrational in thought and behavior - I maintain the slightest hope that she will get the help she needs and become who she once was -- is that possible? Am I fooling myself ? should I file now and seek joint conservatorship with myself being designated as the one who has the last say regarding residency etc.?