J’s Response to My Formal Demand

She emailed me at 10:32 this morning:

“Your credit card is exactly your credit card and if you choose by your own free will to make a purchase to Alaska Airlines for whatever purpose and your are seeking reimbursement for lack of visitation by airplane than these things are your choices. By purchasing with your credit card no way contracts me for payment. I do not owe you Patricia (last name) anything. I am however still in the process of reviewing medical and other financial records for reimbursements due from Richard. I did not say that you would receive payment on the 7th of April just that I would send it then. Due to some unexpected medical situations I was not able to mail out the check on Saturday. However a check is in the outgoing mail for Monday. If you feel the need that you want to further alienate N and L from their dad, then take me to court.”

Um, What?

Concerns

So at approximately 9:00pm, J wrote Keith and told him that it was none of his business about her and her husband. She told him it was none of his business about anything that concerns her with the exception of the kids.

First, it’s funny how EVERYTHING about us and our kids is HER business though and trust me, she uses that information to jam us, degrade us, talk crap about us to the kids and others, every chance she gets.

Secondly, she’s right, sort of, that the only business he has with her is their kids, EXCEPT when she drags ME into her business between her and her husband.

In Keith’s email to her at 9:30pm, he said, “I know that you have placed the blame on me but more specifically, on my wife, for your “divorce in the making” as you have written, and you have told the kids this, that it is mine and my wife’s fault, so this DOES concern me.”

This is just more proof of the Parental Alienation Keith was subjected to by his ex wife.

Spring Break 2001

Back in Feb. 2001 I used my credit card to buy tickets for the kids to visit their dad.

I have not received payment/reimbursement from J for her half. I was prompted to write this email, today: 4/8/01 at 4:31 pm.

“J U,

On 2/18/01, I purchased airfare from Alaska airlines in the amount of $419.00 total for reservation code, XXXXXX. You were sent a copy of the receipt via email on 2/18/01. You acknowledged receiving it on 2/20/01. Your half of this amount is $209.50 and is still due me.

This purchase was made by me, using MY personal credit card, according to the reservations and time frame of purchase YOU made on 2/17/01 for the sole purpose of visitation between my husband Keith (last name) and his kids, N and L (last name).

After 1 inquiry into the status of your reimbursement (on 3/6/01) from Keith on my behalf, and 2 formal demands for payment, from Keith on my behalf (on 3/9/01 one was by email, and one was by USPS Priority Delivery Confirmation, that you received on 3/12/01) giving you 15 days to remit payment, you have failed and refused to send your share of the airfare in full in the amount of $209.50.

As a matter of record and fact, on 3/15/01, you wrote a letter to Keith and his attorney Jack N. and advised BOTH of them that your half of the airfare would be paid in full by April 7th. You have failed and refused to follow that date as well.

Your issues with Keith are just that, but the fact that MY credit card was used in the manner it was and for the purpose that it was, gives me every legal right to seek reimbursement from you PERSONALLY.

This is now MY FORMAL DEMAND FOR PAYMENT. You now have until no later than, Friday, April 27th, 2001 to remit payment TO ME. This will have given you 9 weeks and 5 days to remit payment TO ME. Should you once again, fail and refuse to remit payment TO ME, by and no later than April 27th, 2001, then I will have no other choice but to proceed with this matter through the Court system and in addition to the original $209.50 you owe, I will also ask the court for reimbursement from you for my loss of wages, interest that this charge incurred on my credit card, filing fees and Court costs, fuel expense, and whatever other costs the Court will allow.

Your prompt attention to this matter would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Patricia (middle initial, last name)

562-***-****”

Spring Visitation 2001

Keith had to share his visitation with the ex’s mother. Her mother got the kids 3/31-4/1 2001. The kids got to our house on 4/2 and stayed until 4/6 when their grandmother drove up and picked them up for another day and a few hours until they left on 4/7.

The kids arrived and departed from LAX. Their grandmother lives in the county of San Diego. Sad that Keith had to split his visitation with her mother.

Happy Birthday!

Between Feb. 26th and Apr. 3rd, I sent 5 more of the same letters to Anthony, how Sarah is doing, what’s been happening with her, how she is, etc.

TODAY, his birthday I sent him a birthday card. On the inside it said, “May each moment of your birthday be filled with everything that brings you joy.” and I signed it, “Friends, Patty”

I also enclosed her weekly Test scores and weekly Progress report from last week, and a short note.

March 29, 2001

Ex emailed this morning at 7:23am. Whining about Summer visitation. By the way…The kids are supposed to arrive on April 2-6 for Spring visitation, and the ex is bitching about Summer.

She wrote, “the kids do not want to spend the last part of the summer at your house, nor do they want to spend 5 weeks at your house and yes I am afraid that is what I am going to do with this is their decision because that is what a judge would go with too. They are old enough to make up their minds…You have no plans for your vacation as you have never left the confines or your overheated trailer…If have chosen to take your vacation for the last part of summer then I suppose you have taken all that time off from work. I will get the proof that you didn’t…when a judge sees that you are hassling me to just have the kids be there when you get home and to leave them with your wife and kids all day to sit around in a non air-conditioned trailer during the hottest part of the summer while they wait for you to be selfish…if this is so important to you than go for it. You have already done yourself in with the way you handled things last summer. If the kids don’t want t go then too bad for you. Your loss my gain. (her name)”

Visitation

While still talking about visitations, and J explaining what 5 weeks means (“And for further clarification 5 weeks is exactly even in weeks and days and hours. So your visitation does not go from Saturday to Sunday. A week is seven days to the closest hour….”)

She told him he took the first 5 weeks of summer last year and that schedule is the precedent she went with when planning her vacation schedule.

He told her he was not responsible for for her assumptions, and since when is his previous years visitation the “precedent” she goes by when planning HER vacation? It NEVER happened, she always took the end of June and the first week of July or the first two weeks of July for her vacation, and THAT is the time frame he used when making HIS vacation schedule. He said he didn’t fall off the turnip truck just now. HER retort is “No, you just fell under it and it ran over your heart leaving just your head to make business decisions about your kids and of course while you are unable to think for yourself your wife took over your head so now you are nothing.”

This is something she tells their kids. It’s so very sad.

March 15, 2001

This letter was addressed to Keith’s attorney. The Ex wrote it, LOL. it was postmarked March 16th, 2001 she sent it Certified Return Receipt Requested. It was delivered to our home today, March 21, 2001.

She mentions me in this letter, telling Keith’s attorney. “Both of the children after spending the first 3 days of their last visit (in the summer of 2000) fighting and arguing and finally being ignored by their dad’s wife don’t want to spend their visitations with their dad because they have to… Both the kids were very emotionally upset and withdrawn during the abuse that took place between them and their dad and his wife during the last visit. They were treated badly and then ignored by their dad’s wife for 4 more days after the argument. No I will not force them to visit and be in that environment to be treated like small children and mistreated because of their dad marital situation.”

Project much? His marital situation? LOL….Lets harken back to the Summer Visitation 2000 post, shall we? https://mspisceangal2020.wordpress.com/2000/08/

Besides, she’s always told me to butt out, ALWAYS told Keith that the kids didn’t want anything to do with me, or be here with me while he worked, now she has a problem with me stepping back for a day and a half? LOL I spoke when I had to, otherwise, it was me and my kids, and Keith and his kids, just like she’s wanted, LOL