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Baker Acted In Florida

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A friend of mine just had her ex husband Baker Act her. They were fighting about child support (he hasn’t bother to pay it in almost 2 years) and she made a comment like ‘I’d rather die than go back into a homeless shelter…’ so he called the cops, got her Baker Acted so that she was actually cuffed in front of the kids and he LAUGHED about ‘sending mommy to the nut house’ when explaining it to their son.

I wasn’t there, I don’t know for sure. She’s never seemed suicidal or like a danger to herself. I’ve known this woman over 20 years and we speak almost daily.

What can she do? Can she take steps against her ex for this? How does she keep him from doing it again?

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