My husband is trying to get custody of his son from his ex-wife who is an alcoholic, and we think a druggie.  She is a mess.  They went to court on it in July and were ordered to do mediation, which she refused.  So while she was refusing to do the mediation,. her parents went to the courthouse and got paperwork to be his legal guardian, (wtf?  he has a father who is very capable of raising him) and expected my husband to sign the papers sight unseen.  No agreements were attached to the paperwork, nothing.  When my husband refused to sign them do to a perjury issue that signing them could cause based on the wording of the papers about another pending issue on the situation, which there is, they are mad at him.  They forget that this is his son, not theirs, just because the daughter signed them and walked doesn't mean a thing.  She signed the papers and left the child there.  The papers are not legal, and they want to get mad at my husband for the following courtdate 8/29/07 because the judge would not even except the papers as they were not done the right way, etc etc etc.  They went off on him like a banshee.  The judge specifically told my husband that they would have to file a motion at the courthouse, and when it hit the docket it would then be seen in a courtroom with a judge.  The ex-wife didin't show at the 2nd hearing, so now the judge is putting her on trial, and yet they scream at my husband that he lied to them, etc etc etc.  As far as I can tell, if you looked up the word dysfunctional in the dictionary, it would be that whole family, not us.  My husband is doing everything by the law, waiting patiently for things to happen which is all we can do.  The grandparents are acting like its their kid, even though they really have no rights, and my husband is living the child there for the time being since the grandparents had already registered him in school and we do not live in that school district, but its still not their business.  Its ridiculous. I told my husband he better make sure they DO NOT say anything around me about it, cause I have a red neck temper and they may hear a few things that they don't like, and its not my problem, cause I'll tell them how it is, and then make my husband go to their house with a copy of the divorce papers stating he has joint custody and the local cops, and yank the kid outta their home just for spite if they don't back off with the accusations and screaming at him.  After all, it is their daughter that keeps things in an uproar all the time, it isn't us.