You may know me personally, you may have read some of my writing or you may be meeting me for the first time.

I am Beatrice Weber and left a marriage to an Hasidic Rabbi 6 years ago despite the severe opposition of the community, my family and Rabbis.

I could  have never imagined that six years later I would still be in family court, fighting for the right to parent my children.

When I first left my marriage with four of my ten children, I managed to raise enough money to cover the initial family court costs and obtain custody and orders of protection.

Despite having received my divorce in 2016, my ex-husband keeps on filing motions to take away the children from me, which I am forced to respond to. I used the services of a very competent attorney and have thus far managed to retain custody of my children.

I suspect that he recently obtained financial support from the Hasidic community since he has hired a new aggressive attorney who has drastically increased the amount of motions filed forcing me to respond and incur huge financial bills.

This most likely is also because  I filed a lawsuit in September of 2019 against my son’s Hasidic Yeshiva in an attempt to ensure that he receives an adequate secular education.

I have also recently lost my job which has made this financial burden almost impossible to deal with.  I have $10,000 in outstanding fees for this attorney and I implore you to give whatever you can to help me cover this cost.

I don’t want to become a statistic. Another mother from an ultra-religious  community who loses her children in family court.

My children deserve to have me in their lives and I deserve to parent my children.

I thank you from the bottom of my heart for all your assistance.

If you want to read more of my story, you can read it here 

https://link.medium.com/xF4ruUl5B6