Hello,

My name is Adam and I am willing to give this a chance. I am looking to you, the people of the internet to help me hopefully fund my legal fees, and help me fight for custody of my 10-year-old autistic son, Dylan.

Backstory to all of this: my now ex and I got together 10 years ago, and had our son. In June 2025, it came to my attention that she was making moves to purchase a house and unilaterally decide to take my son and move four hours away.

I kept monitoring the situation, until the point my ex had an upcoming wedding, in August, to go to at which she was a bridesmaid and was planning on bringing my son. Now, as mentioned my son as Autism and often has violent outbursts when he does not get his way.

Thankfully , I was able to offer my son an alternative to going to the weddings, staying with me at my parent while his mother to the wedding. My son eagerly accepted, thus heading off any plans my ex made to abscond with him.

Now, in the opinion of my family, friends and myself, had I let her take my son to the wedding she would have just disappeared after the wedding, moving four hours away and taking my son with her with no warning or notice.

It was around this time, before the wedding the I had a lawyer send her an email basically stating "do not unilaterally decide to take the child and leave". This is where our separation started, shortly thereafter.

As of recently it has been back and forth between her and my lawyer. My ex and I are both very steadfast in our views regarding my son. She refused to believe that moving my son from all of this support system, the people he has grown up with, his family and friends and moving 4 hours away by car, which neither of us own or drive, is completely sound and logical idea.

When I brought up to my lawyer my ex's mental breakdowns, that were witnessed by a social work to the point of them calling child services on her, my ex admitted she has had these problems since she was a child and has trouble with emotional regulation herself.

My ex believed that my brining up these facts, that I don't believe she is mentally stable enough to care for my son alone was "me weaponizing her mental health against her" like that would not come up in court regardless.

An example of how easy it is to break her, she will have customers or co-workers at work (she works retail, part-time), yell at her and she will come home damaged and broken, with a thousand yard stare and be basically comatose for the rest of the night.

As of now, things are progressing, finally, and court is looming. I am in desperate need of the funds to afford a lawyer to represent me in court. I do not want to get blindsided in court since I do not know the intricacies of legal battles and when / how to do anything.

So, I am once again asking you people of the internet, if at all possible, please lend me your support so that I have a fighting chance of keeping my son. Thank you, and God Bless.