A custody ruling is handed down by the courts and is legal. Your ex has broken the law! If you are working or married to someone else and all is well between you and your new husband, then you have a good chance gaining full custody of your son/daughter in a court of law. However, think of your son/daughter and not the bitter battle between your ex and yourself. Your son/daughter loves you both. A compromise must be considered for your son's/daughter's sake.
There are reasons a mother may not have the rights to custody (not accusing you here at all.):
Partying too muchDoing drugs or drinking too muchShe doesn't live in a stable environment to bring a child up inBrings too many men home after meeting them in various placesIs married to an abusive manShe travels in her job too much
The above are very good reasons why a mother would not have custody rights.
It's time to report the broken custody to police and then it's on record. See what they say and if nothing is done, then it's time to see a lawyer.
Good luckMarcy
Yes. You should have filed a complaint for contempt with the court a long time ago. He has no right to disobey a court order for visitation. The longer you wait the worse the outcome will be for you. Do not allow the child's father to control your visitations with your child. Get moving.
Being denied visitation or not, a father can petition for sole custody. The two situations are not related.
Yes, the father have to go to court to get visitation or custody.
no
How does he have any visitation rights with a custody and child support order?
The mother can still have sole legal and physical custody when the father is awarded visitations. Custody and visitations are separate matters. The mother would be required to obey the visitation schedule.
No. Not unless there is a court order to that effect. The custody order should include a visitation schedule for the non-custodial parent unless she has been deemed unfit and for some reasons the court denied visitation. She should return to that court and take the appropriate action by requesting a visitation schedule is there is none. A custodial parent who withholds visits without the authority to do so can lose custody of the child.
Yes of course you can. Visitation rights or shared custody should be settled when they are babies. There should have been a visitation order entered at the time the father was granted custody. There is no age restriction. Unless you were deemed an unfit parent you have the right to a visitation schedule. You should return to the court that issued the custody order and request a visitation schedule.
If you are not married and there is no custody or visitation order, she has custody automatically. The father have to prove paternity in court by a DNA test and then petition for custody or visitation. He can then also pay child support.
yes biological fathers may seek visitation and custody rights
You can have one or the other, but not both. As for punishing the child by denying access to the child, that's up to you. see link
You have the visitation rights that were established in the divorce, and you have no custody rights.
So this child should be punished for the father being late?