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NaTeWHO

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  1. That's the site I've been using. Here is where I've been reading on changing a child's name. https://texaslawhelp.org/guide/i-want-to-change-my-childs-name?tab=1 Pushing for the 1st option, "Instructions & Forms for Child Name Change: Both Parents Agree to File Together." If we can get him to sign the forms listed, we all move on and leave it behind us. Kind of expecting the 2nd option, "Instructions and Forms for Child Name Change - One parent filing - Other parent will be served," where I'll have to get lawyers and courts involved and drag this shit out. I'd like to force his hand with the child support ultimatum, but don't know if that would somehow damage our case should option #2 be our path forward. Something like, "Apparently you want to take the difficult route. We want to make this easy, but if you refuse to respond we will be seeking 9 years of back child support and also succeed in changing (stepson's) name in court. If you are uncomfortable meeting with me, we have provided a mediator to meet you with the documents to sign. If neither she nor I hear from you by this Friday, we will move forward without you."
  2. No divorce. She was never married to biological father.
  3. Dune 2 out on Max at 12:01 am PT tonight.
  4. My stepson will start 9th grade next year and he wants to change his last name to mine. Background: His biological father is a loser (shocker) and an idiot. We cannot get him to respond to us after a month of multiple attempts. We've called and texted, as well as had others who know him try to get a response on our behalf and have had no luck. He answered the phone when my wife called and then hung up when she said who she was. My stepson came into my life when he was 5. He's now 14 and there has been no contact with the real father since a few months before my stepson and I met. 9 years with zero attempted contact. Biological father's name is not on the birth certificate, but from what I've read, that doesn't matter as his rights were never terminated. My wife and stepson left an abusive situation shortly before my wife and I met. I am wondering how to proceed. He has not said no, he's just ignoring everyone who tries to contact him. This would be really easy if he'd just sign a couple forms for the court and I've made that clear. Now we're getting angry and Momma bear is getting fired up. She wants me to try one more time with an ultimatum of sign the papers or we will be coming after 9 years of child support. I don't even know if that's possible or even care about the money per se, but she thinks that might scare him into signing. I guess it would recoup legal fees should we have to get lawyers involved. Seems like an easy decision to me. Either take a couple minutes to sign papers or pay 50k (estimate) in back child support and still lose when the name change is approved regardless. Is that a bad idea? Any advice on how to proceed? Anyway to get this done without his involvement?
  5. "and loses just start stacking up." Fucking loses!
  6. NaTeWHO

    Shit My Kid Says

    My pre k 5 year old started counting in binary (powers of 2) out of nowhere last night. Got to 128 before I stopped him and asked where he learned it. Said he didn't learn it and just likes doubling the numbers. I'm a software engineer and grandpa was a petroleum engineer, so it makes sense, but we couldn't do that at his age. He's had no formal math training. The kid walks around the house singing songs he makes up about numbers nonstop. It gets pretty old, but the kid LOVES numbers so I gotta deal with it.
  7. Unexpectedly well, or exactly how they planned it? Your holy-shit-o-meter is busted.
  8. I love this series. I've been to Osaka twice for work and visited the castle. It's cool seeing it on this show. The entire place was impressive, but the walls were wild. The size of the stones used and how precisely they were fit together was nuts. Here are some not so great 12 year old cell phone pictures.
  9. Not sure, but best representation I've seen of what it actually looks like in totality. Every video or picture I've found does not do it justice. Other than the detail on the Moon's surface (It was solid black), that is what it looked like to the naked eye. You can see all the corona detail and could pick out loops of solar flares that were pink. It's shocking.
  10. Phone camera through telescope.
  11. You guys sent me down a rabbit hole and this is where I ended up. I'm sure it's been posted, don't care.
  12. Raining like a cow pissing on a flat rock. Pawpaw always tells my boys, "Wouldn't trade you for a million dollars in nickels."
  13. Gave it a shot. Got most of the way through episode 2. This shit is terrible. I really thought Jodie Foster would save it, but it's fucking painful. I'll skip the rest and read spoilers after the season.
  14. Which one of those says "worse?" The r is silent. Wuss, like a weak person. Not ster, but stuh. Another silent r. Like stud without saying the d. Also, not shire like where the Hobbits live, but shr. Like brr when you're cold, but with an sh. Wuss stuh shr
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