{"id":243,"date":"2025-07-27T14:52:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T14:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guruofthebeauty.com\/hot-talk\/9515-in-court-my-ex-said-my-son-wants-to-live-with-me-the-judge-asked-my-son-is-that-true-my-son-stood-up-pulled-out-his-phone-and-asked-may-i-play-the\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T14:52:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T14:54:07","slug":"in-court-my-ex-said-my-son-wants-to-live-with-me-the-judge-asked-my-son-is-that-true-my-son-stood-up-pulled-out-his-phone-and-asked-may-i-play-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/popbriefly.com\/?p=243","title":{"rendered":"In court, my ex said, \u201cmy son wants to live with me.\u201d the judge asked my son, \u201cis that true?\u201d my son stood up, pulled out his phone, and asked, \u201cmay I play the recording from last night?\u201d the judge froze."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The courtroom was quiet, not the kind of quiet that feels peaceful, but the kind that makes your heart thump louder than it should. <\/p>\n<p>My son, Zaden, sat just a few feet away from me, his little legs swinging off the edge of the wooden bench. <\/p>\n<p>He was only eight, but his face was older that day, like he\u2019d aged in the minutes we\u2019d been sitting there.<\/p>\n<div class=\"in_article\"><\/div>\n<p>Damian, my ex-husband, stood tall beside his lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>He wore that same smirk he always did when he thought he was winning.<\/p>\n<p>He looked straight ahead, not at me, not at our son.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/guruofthebeauty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/fb12-1.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n<p>The judge adjusted his glasses, flipped through a few papers, and finally looked up. \u201cMr. Carter,\u201d he said, \u201cyou\u2019re asking for a change in custody. <\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve told this court your son has expressed a desire to live with you. Is that correct?\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"in_article\"><\/div>\n<p>Damian nodded confidently. \u201cYes, Your Honor. Zaden told me he\u2019s not comfortable in his current living situation. He said he wants to live with me full-time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My stomach turned. I looked at Zaden. His hands were folded tightly in his lap. I wanted to reach for him, to shield him somehow, but I couldn\u2019t move.<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a tense courtroom, a custody battle unfolds between a mother and her smirking ex-husband over their son, Zaden, who allegedly wants to live with his father.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hot-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/popbriefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/popbriefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/popbriefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/popbriefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/popbriefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/popbriefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/popbriefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/popbriefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/popbriefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}