{"id":24504,"date":"2025-07-25T11:28:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T11:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=24504"},"modified":"2025-07-25T11:36:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T11:36:40","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:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=24504","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 class=\"entry-title\">The courtroom was quiet, not the kind of quiet that feels peaceful, but the kind that makes your heart thump louder than it should. My son, Zaden, sat just a few feet away from me, his little legs swinging off the edge of the wooden bench. 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<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-877\" src=\"https:\/\/look-here.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/522249591_1035654628723448_8935874330702912040_n-576x1024.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/look-here.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/522249591_1035654628723448_8935874330702912040_n-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/look-here.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/522249591_1035654628723448_8935874330702912040_n-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/look-here.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/522249591_1035654628723448_8935874330702912040_n.jpg 720w\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Damian, my ex-husband, stood tall beside his lawyer. He wore that same smirk he always did when he thought he was winning. He looked straight ahead, not at me, not at our son.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=24506\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23467\" src=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/340C4489-16D4-4656-9B02-A344BA7D4DAB-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"905\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/340C4489-16D4-4656-9B02-A344BA7D4DAB-1.jpeg 905w, https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/340C4489-16D4-4656-9B02-A344BA7D4DAB-1-300x75.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/340C4489-16D4-4656-9B02-A344BA7D4DAB-1-768x191.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 905px) 100vw, 905px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"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. My son, Zaden, sat just a few feet away from me, his little legs swinging off the edge of the wooden bench. He was only eight, but his face was older&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=24504\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;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.&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24504"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24504"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24521,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24504\/revisions\/24521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}