I’ll make this short and add more details if needed. Hired a lawyer that hasn’t communicated much but seeing as I’ve never had to go through this before I assumed it was normal. After hiring him a month ago he made me feel pretty positive that I would get 50/50 custody after hearing that my wife had agreed with me that we would split custody. Fast forward to last week we had a hearing to decide custody arrangements and who has rights to the house and her lawyer hit me with Texas max child support and they wanted 3/2/3 custody in the summer and standard 1st/2nd/3rd weekend during the school year. My lawyer negotiated a lower child support even though I didn’t have an issue with it and pushed for standard custody during the summer too ( whole month of July ). He pretty much told me the judge always defaults to standard custody and that was pretty much it. I have 3 kids 6F 9M and 14F the two older ones want 50/50 but I don’t want to drag them into court and their mom has said they can come see me whenever they want ( that will never happen due to her always finding stuff to do every day). I just don’t know what to do next. I want to be there for them because I’m the only one that provides a normal life for them. My wife never makes them do any chores, never cooks for them and takes them places every single day. I’m working out of town at the moment but I know from going home on the weekends that she has only cooked for them twice since I left over 2 months ago.