Remedying the situation
I'm really grateful for the offer, and will happily look into any option.

Way I figure it though is that although a court could (would?) grant me access, no force in the universe can make her well disposed toward me. She's seriously pissed and has already demonstrated a willingness to 'defend' herself through a smear campaign. Unless I can change her mind, part of me wonders if it's better for the little guy not to have to have two parents fighting a war of attrition over his head.

I'm convinced that he has every right to know his old man and decide for himself if I'm worth having around (I reckon I'd be a pretty good dad, myself), but that it would be far better for him to do that in a semi-normal environment.
(InfiniteMonkey, Fri 18 Apr 2008, 15:50, Reply)