Location: Oklahoma Wife left with our 2-month-old, recorded the conversation. Did I handle this right?
Location: Oklahoma. Married 3 years. I’m the sole income earner at roughly $120k a year, work remotely from home, and pay all rent on our house.
Today my wife came to the house with her parents and told me she wants a separation. Before coming over, she and her parents spoke with a lawyer friend, and based on that advice, her father began recording the conversation as soon as they sat down. I was told it was being recorded but was not asked for consent.
She asked me to leave the house so she and our two-month-old son could stay in what she called a stable environment. I refused. I told her I didn’t want to leave, I didn’t want her to leave, and I wanted to work on our marriage through counseling. She refused counseling and said “this is happening, this is not your decision.”
After I refused to leave, she packed up her personal belongings with her parents’ help, took our son, took our only vehicle which is in her name, and left to stay at her parents’ house. I’m now sitting in the house with no car and no access to my son. He’s two months old and breastfeeding.
My main concerns are whether her father recording that conversation was legal in Oklahoma and whether it could be used against me, and whether I was right to refuse to leave the house or if that could hurt me. I’m calling a family law attorney first thing tomorrow.