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Question from rustyboardsNov-7
I went to prison about 10 years ago for some stupid stuff I did, mainly petty stuff, a couple bad checks, I test drove a vehicle and didn't really have the money for the vehicle.  I #### the wrong people off in a small town.  Needless to say I went away for about 12 months.

Present day.  I got married to a Mormon girl after short time of dating.  It turns out that she was bipolar and I left her after a few months.  I was completely honest with her about my past which of course was used against me in the divorce.  

I left her in May of this year.  In June, I met someone and wasn't completely honest about marriage status.  I had told her I was divorced in reality I was only legally separated.  I met her and she would come down from where she was (three hours away).  I wasn't in love with her at all.  I was just using her for emotional support and of course the sex.

I decided to call it off in July as I just didn't want to play with this girl's emotions.  A week later, she called me and told me she was pregnant.  She decided to get a test after I broke up with her to make sure her being late wasn't due to being pregnant.  Well she was pregnant.  I decided that my wants or needs didn't matter and that the baby's needs were now higher than mine.  I tried to work on a relationship with the soon to be mom. (due date April) I am 36 and have tried to straightened my life out as much as possible.  In fact, I'm graduating from college this December.

I don't have a lot of money and one of the ways I knew I could help her was to help finish her home so she could rent it out.  During this time, I discovered that her mom was a major control freak and ran her daughter's life.  I decided to ditch the situation BUT not the baby.  After I left, she found out that I wasn't actually divorced until August. Well she found out my ex's name and emailed my ex.  The ex forward the email to the Mormon Bishop.  The the Mormon bishop got the baby's mom email from the original email.  He wrote her.  The Mormon's think that any child created out marriage, the child should be given to LDS FAMILY services for adoption.  Well, this Mormon bishop decided to tell this girl ALL my past.  He even talked to the pregnant girl's mom.  

I've done all I could do, I have been to all the dr's appointment by the way and paid for them.  I'm trying to do the right thing.  Well now her mom sent me an email saying if I try to make any further contact with either of them, they would file a restraining order because I'm an ex con and I'm dangerous. I mean come on TEN years ago and I owe my own profitable business now and I'm going to graduate from college.

Thanks to this Mormon Bishop and my past, they are trying to screw me out of raising my child.

this is in texas

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NewOneNow Nov-9 79078.2

After the baby is born, file a petition to establish (your) paternity.  Once paternity is established, file for custody (probably shared legal and physical), support and visitation. 

Once your paternity is established, you then have the same rights to the child as the mother.  And just to note, the Mormon's have none.

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