"How many more months until I get to come back?"

My name is Ace and I need help bringing my daughter home. Two years ago, on April 17th, she stayed with us (myself, my partner, and my partner's son) overnight, as she usually did. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary. The next day, her mother picked her up and we discussed her desire to keep our daughter, "for the summer." Of course, I was upset at the thought of not seeing her for so long, but agreed. Summer came and went, and our daughter was not allowed to return. She began asking every time I was allowed to visit her at her mother's place, when she could come back. She missed me. She missed my partner. She missed my partner's son, who she affectionately calls her brother. She told me one day she felt like her mom had kidnapped her from us. I wanted to break. And so, I hired a lawyer. My partner drained all of her assets, and we have been actively fighting with our lawyer and courts on our side for months upon months. But lawyers are not cheap. As should have been expected, the case is being dragged out as long as possible, due to the refusal of coming to a mutual 50/50 custody agreement between myself and my ex, my daughter's mother. That's where I am asking for your help. We have exhausted all of our monetary assets, as my partner has lost her job during this ordeal. We are so, so close to bringing my daughter back, as she so badly wants to, to me being allowed to exercise my rights as her father, that the thought of losing my lawyer and all of the legal progress, it's enough to make me crumble. It's enough to break me. I am asking, begging for help to make our family whole again, after more than two years. Myself, my partner, my daughter, and my partner's son, we are all feeling broken. We are all feeling incomplete. We are all feeling absolutely heartbroken. My goal is to raise enough funds to continue to be able to pay for my lawyer to fight for 50/50 custody, to bring my daughter home to the family she cherishes, the family she loves, the family she so desperately wants to see again. To be able to have equal time with her, to be allowed to be her father. She wants to come home. And with your help, that possibility would be so close, maybe before the end of 2025 even. Before we miss another birthday. Another Christmas. We will continue to fight for her and I hope you will consider helping as well. Thank you so much for your consideration.

**Thank you for all of your support! We have been able to keep up with lawyer fees so far. However, a retainer of $4,000 is still needed by September to keep them on our team. Plus all costs related to the fight in court we have yet to face. We will not stop the fight for 50/50 custody to be able to bring his daughter home to be with the half of her family she has been kept from seeing for over 2 years now. Thank you again, your support means everything to us!

**7/2/2025 ETA

As you may have noticed, we have dropped our goal from $7,000 to $3,000. We are so thankful and fortunate enough to have had help privately to reach our $4,000 retainer fee for Ace's lawyer to take this matter to court. Unfortunately, this means mediation has failed as an agreement was not reached mutually. Thanks to your continued support with both donations and sharing of our fundraiser, there is hope that we can continue to fight with our experienced lawyer for his legal right to have his daughter come home finally after more than 2 long years. We cannot express how grateful we are to everyone who has supported us, and a simple thank you isn't enough but it's all we have. We have hope that this year we will be able to have our family whole come the holiday season. We will continue our fight for Reina's wishes and well-being, as well as her father's rights to shared custody, as long as it takes. Your heartfelt contributions make that possibility nearer.