Sean Goldman will finally leave Brazil with his father

[thomasortega]

Woooo hoooooooo

Finally justice happened.

I still can't understand how some people can be so idiot to believe a step father has more right than the real father of a child.

Come on, the kid lived many years in the US. his first language is English, suddenly his mother decides to divorce, comes to brazil and foces the kid to rstart his live like a computer when we reinstall Windows.

Then the mom dies and her new husband believes he can be the "new father"while his real father still alive?

This is absolutelly ridiculous!

According to the Brazilian laws, the step father has the right to "TRY" but, as the kid was born and raised in the US, his place is the US. I believe the whole country has the same opinion, except those two jackass (the stepfather and his lawyer).

Finally the attorney decided to finish this mexican soap opera and wrote the final chapter. The kid belongs to his parents. YAY!

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/12/23/brazil.custody.battle/index.html

 

[panthera]

I do hope

that both sides of his family can find a means for him to continue to remain close to his step-sister and step-dad, with whom he has a loving relationship.

Given that there's money all around, I hope they can find a workable solution.

His mother must have been quite a piece of work, wonder why she punished her first husband so horribly?

 

[launderess]

And About Time!

Really is sad for a parent to have used her son to get at her husband, the way the late former Mrs. Goldman did, but hope springs eternal that not only can the father and son bond be restored, but the entire family can heal as well.

Oh and by the way, courts blindly siding with whatever parent has custody of the child or children within a country's borders is not new. This even when the child was removed from his home country in violation of child custody agreements and court orders to return.

Story of Lady Meyer (Catherine Meyer) is but one very sad and horrible example, and has been written into a book and covered widely by the media.

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/02/w...many-is-tough-on-the-french.html?pagewanted=2

 

[bajaespuma]

Handsome is as handsome does

I wonder.

No argument that the Brazilian wife was wrong, legally and ethically, in her actions, but I'm a little disturbed by what I don't know and am not hearing about.

I don't know why Mrs. Goldman left Mr. Goldman so precipitously. I don't know what the son wants or how he feels about his biological father and his adoptive Brazilian family. Where does he want to be and does anyone care? He's been living a substantial life in Brazil with a family, albeit not his biological kin, and now he's going to be Yanked back to New Jersey where he will be, as far as I know, alone with Goldman. I know this is "right" and the legally correct outcome, but if I were to put myself in Sean's shoes (or expensive beach-sandals) I wonder where I would really want to be.

The way we Americans seem to think these days is that if we see a very pretty sympathetic face like Mr. Goldman's, we automatically take his side and say, "Awwwww, he's so adorable, he must be a good guy", and we are won over with nothing but an image.

Something inside of me is a little worried for Sean Goldman. No matter what the ultimate truth of this is, he is sadly a victim of two parents who couldn't make their family work.