My boyfriend and I have been dating since earlier this year. He was married for close to 4 years and left his wife for me after about a month of seeing eachother. They have a son who will be four this month. Since he’s left, he’s given her most of his paycheck to cover the majority of their 3,000.00 dollars a month worth of bills to pay for the mortage, utilities, child and the car he just bought that she drives. That is basically his whole full time paycheck and we just found out we’re pregnant 2 months ago. We’ve been trying to keep it quiet until he got the divorce mediations under way but she found out and he told her last week and she has threatened to take full physical custody. He is devestated because he is a great father who’s been supporting his son and while doing that, supporting her because she is staying in their house. She has yet to find a second job because her full time job doesn’t make half of what he does. In the state of Massachusetts, I didn’t really think unless there is an absurd reason why the court wouldn’t grant shared physical custody. Besides working as a police officer and for the government, he has plenty of people who would support him. He isn’t looking for full physical custody because he doesn’t want to take her away from him because she isn’t a bad mother. Some of her actions during this whole time have been questionable and solidfy evidence that she’s a whack job. He can’t afford a lawyer really because he’s paying for her to live and her parents probably can’t afford her lawyer. What possibly would the courts bring up to say he shoudln’t have joint custody?