It’s no secret that divorces can get messy, especially between couples who have kids. They get even messier when one person gets a little obsessed with taking the other to court.

One woman was recently scolded by her mother-in-law after her ex and his new wife made fools out of themselves in court to try and get more time with her kids.

She’s 33 and has two kids with her ex-husband, Liam, who are 11 and 9-years-old. She and Liam recently divorced after she revealed that he was having an affair with a woman named Jean two years ago.

Liam revealed his affair in an unconventional and inappropriate way, which made the divorce and the custody battle more complicated.

“My children learned of the affair before me, [as] Liam took Jean to meet the kids outside of school, and he tried to tell them she was going to be their new mom,” she explained.

“He asked the kids to tell me they wanted to live with him and Jean. That morning, the kids left a home they thought was happy and safe with Mom and Dad, and by the time school was out, Dad showed up with a strange lady, admitted he’d been cheating, and [said] they were getting a new family.”

She got a call from her children’s teachers that day because they ran back into the school distraught after Liam did all that. 

During their divorce, Liam tried to win sole custody of their children and wanted Jean to be able to adopt them. The court did not take this well, so their divorce was drawn out because Liam wouldn’t let up.

When their divorce was officially finalized, they shared custody, and Liam married Jean right away. While she had hoped everything would be settled by now, Liam is making the situation worse and putting them back in court.

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When she and Liam were still together, they had a tradition of working with the kids to prepare a special day for each other’s birthdays. 

“It became a sweet little tradition where the kids ‘helped’ me cook for his [birthday], and he brought the kids to pick up my favorite takeout [for mine],” she said.

“We helped them shop for the birthday gifts as well. He expected this to continue after the divorce and for Jean to be included.”

Well, the kids sought help from her brother to help prepare for her birthday but refused to work with Jean for their dad’s or help him prepare for Jean’s. Liam became very angry and complained, telling her that she or her brother should encourage the kids to do things for his and Jean’s birthdays.

Liam claimed that the situation was an example of ‘parental alienation’ and took her to court over it.

“He filed a motion with the courts, and we [recently] had a court date where he was spewing all this nonsense,” she recalled.

“He made this claim that we had promised to continue this [tradition] for each other and that he held up his end until I refused. [He claimed] it was my wish to negatively influence his and Jean’s relationship with the kids. I let him do his ranting and raving and then showed documented proof that he was lying [via] texts and emails exchanged about this very topic.”

When she pulled out her evidence, Liam and Jean looked like fools in front of the judge, who dismissed Liam’s allegations and scolded him and Jean for their behavior.

Later that day, Liam’s mom went up to her and told her she could have saved everyone time and stopped Liam and Jean from looking so foolish if she had presented her evidence earlier instead of letting him rant and rave.

Was she wrong to present her evidence that way, or did Liam and Jean deserve the scolding they got?

You can read the original post on Reddit here.