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    No More White Picket Fences
    No More White Picket Fences
    No More White Picket Fences
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    No More White Picket Fences

    By Marc Sisteren

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    A father’s desperate fight for his children and his sanity, and a mother’s return from breaking point.

    Yet through the nightmare, through all lessons learnt, the emotions and heartaches, he meets an amazing woman, with her own tale of a divorce from hell, manipulation and psychological bullying from her ex-husband and constant battle over her children.
    See how these two amazing people find their light at the end of a long tunnel. More importantly, they find an even deeper love in each other a second time round helping to survive and cope with a system that seems to favor justice in crime more than family.
    This is an amazing true story of how two strangers, torn apart, from two different families, across town, struggle separately and then come together to fight the system, to keep faith in each other and their children, and somewhere, amongst all the pain, sadness and turmoil, fall in love and become soul mates. With combined strength, patience and determination, they save their love for their children and rebuild a home and a new family unit.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMarc Sisteren
    Release dateMay 18, 2012
    ISBN9781476004617
    No More White Picket Fences
    Author

    Marc Sisteren

    I am simply a loving and caring father fighting to have joint custody of his children. A twisted family law system in Australia and a huge ongoing legal battle has meant that I need to tell my story to other potential fathers going through separation and the pitfalls if you don't act quickly. It is also my real life story to help me heal.

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      Book preview

      No More White Picket Fences - Marc Sisteren

      No More White

      Picket Fences

      No More White Picket Fences

      By

      Marc Sisteren

      SMASHWORDS EDITION

      * * * * *

      PUBLISHED BY:

      Marc Sisteren on Smashwords

      No More White Picket Fences

      Copyright © 2010 by Marc Sisteren

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      This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you like to share this book with another person, then please purchase an additional copy for this purpose. If you’re reading this book and did not purchased it, or it was not purchased for use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of the author

      Table of Contents

      Chapter One: Did the picket fence just fall down?

      Chapter Two: Looking into the mirror

      Chapter Three: The blame game

      Chapter Four: How do YOU cope and survive?

      Chapter Five: The marriage

      Chapter Six: How to lie, bully and manipulate. The Ex is a jerk.

      Chapter Seven: Do I walk away and hide now?

      Chapter Eight: What about the children?

      Chapter Nine: What happens in the system?

      Chapter Ten: Greener pastures. Is there such a thing?

      Chapter Eleven: Checklist on survival and how to keep and protect your children

      Chapter Twelve: Contacts & Organizations who can help you on matters of

      Separation/divorce

      A father’s desperate fight for his children and his sanity, and a mother’s return from breaking point.

      This is a true story of a loving father and prime career struggling with his ex-partner’s extra marital affair, her lies and threats, theft, family betrayal and in his opinion, an unfair system. Yet through the nightmare, through all lessons learnt, the emotions and heartaches, he meets an amazing woman, with her own tale of a divorce from hell, manipulation and psychological bullying from her ex-husband and constant battle over her children.

      See how these two amazing people find their light at the end of a long tunnel. More importantly, they find an even deeper love in each other a second time round helping to survive and cope with a system that seems to favor justice in crime more than family.

      This is an amazing true story of how two strangers, torn apart, from two different families, across town, struggle separately and then come together to fight the system, to keep faith in each other and their children, and somewhere, amongst all the pain, sadness and turmoil, fall in love and become soul mates. With combined strength, patience and determination, they save their love for their children and rebuild a home and a new family unit.

      This is his emotional journey. An emotional guide on how he managed to move on. Follow his story step by step. It might just save your sanity and offer you hope. It may also make you believe that soul mates do exist.

      Chapter One: Did the picket fence just fall down?

      Four separate Court hearings, twelve months of legal battles and fighting, I manage to claw my way from what started out as been given only a weekend per fortnight custody with my children, to securing 7 nights with my son and 5 nights with my daughter per fortnight.

      It wasn’t easy though. In fact, it was a journey to hell and back.

      I had to prove that not only was I a loving and caring father, but I also needed to prove that my ex-partner wasn’t the ‘prime career’ which she was trying to portray in the Court room.

      What a sight. Complete with rosary beads and a crucifix!! Was this the woman I was married to for twenty years? There are many instances where a separation and split is amicable. In my case, it was so initially, by a verbal mutual agreement, 50/50 custody and 50/50 asset split.

      How quickly it all changed though.

      Things started becoming really nasty when she went for the ‘money grab’ by trying to only offer me two days per fortnight with my children, in which case I could possibly have lost 80% of the assets and she would receive a huge maintenance

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