virago comments

"The real questions we need to be asking is how can we get Savoie to be in contact/allow visitation with his kids. All the other crap is irrelevant."

Good luck with that after Savoie hired four thugs to forcefully remove two screaming kids (who were yelling help) while holding their mother in a full nelson. Great way for Savoie's kids to remember him.

"virago,

I think you jumped to conclusions. He spent lots of time with his kids and then she took them away. Try to make some sense."

Point of View, Savoie and Noriko were seperated in Japan in 2007. Savoie lived in Tokyo while Noriko lived with her parents in Fukuoka. Savoie didn't move to the states until Dec. 2008. Noriko and the kids went to the states in June 2009. Obviously, Savoie couldn't have seen the kids very much during this time. And when Savoie did see them, he never claimed that Noriko prevented him visitation WHILE THEY WERE IN JAPAN. Presumably, Savoie was paying Noriko some kind of child support during their seperation. Savoie could've stayed in Japan and continued the agreement he had with Noriko DURING THEIR SEPERATION. Instead, he used economic coercion to force Noriko and the kids to give up their entire country and culture to move to the states so he could marry another woman. This whole thing was never about the kids, it was about AMY.

"Yeah. Fair statement. I don't know the timeline in which Chris had connections with AMY, but it sounds clear to me that his marriage life was on the rocks while they were still in Japan."

Chris and Amy Savoie were college sweethearts. He rekindled his relationship with her while still married and living in Japan. He moved to Tennessee (where Amy lived) in Dec. 2008, and served Noriko divorce papers in June 2009 two days after she arrived in the states. A person has to be a resident of Tennessee 6 months before they can file for divorce.

"She just ran off with the kids, didnt say a thing. So if she was concerned about the kids spending time with their father she should have made an arrangement prior to"

NO, Point of View, if SAVOIE was so concerned about spending time with his kids, SAVOIE should have made an arrangement prior to.

Personally, I don't care if Noriko agreed to go to the United States for a divorce and a big money payout. It's the cultural expectation that women stay home with the kids. Noriko had been a stay at home mother for years, and she was totally financially dependent on Savoie. Japan is an expensive country in the middle of a recession. A woman, who hadn't worked in years, with two small children would have a hard time supporting herself in Noriko's circumstances. To make matters worse, CHILD SUPPORT, like visitation, isn't enforced in Japan either. Do you think Savoie didn't realize this? He used Noriko's financial dependency on him to force her to give up her entire culture and country so he could be with AMY SAVOIE. No matter what people think, this has never been about the kids for Savoie. It was all his relationship with Amy (who had her own divorce and custody issues). What Savoie did to Noriko speaks of ECONOMIC COERCION! Savoie wanted his cake and eat it too. Unfortunately for him, it blew up in his face. That's it in a nutshell!