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Submitted 616 days ago...

Chick599

Chick599

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Termination of visitation rights.

Is it possible to terminate the standard visitation rights of my daugther's father? she's 30 months old and he has not been around to see her but maybe 3 or 4 times since she was born. He was military and pretended to be single when we met, when I got pregnant he decided to tell me the truth being that he was separated but very much married, when our daugther was born he decided to go back to his wife for what he claimed were financial reasons, sold his house and bought a much bigger house in the expensive side of town we agreed that I would not file for child support so long as he stayed in our daugthers life and be an invoved father, he never did and at the beginning of this year I filed for child support, he claims that he will not be able to make his house payments therefore he had to confess to his wife his infidelity and the result of it and; now his wife wants him to fight me for custody so he doesn't have to pay the child support. He didn't pay the hospital bill and his only contribution was providing diapers for her for 1year.

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Answer 1 / 3 - Submitted 616 days ago...

tomturkey

tomturkey

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You cannot terminate what you don't have. You never had any visitations set though the court. Your frist mistake was not filing for child support right after the baby was born. You don't need to worry about him getting custody of your child and his wife does not know what she is talking about. The law states that a mother can file for child support from the father and the burden of proof is upon him to prove he is or is not the father,and until he proves that he will be paying support so they just as well get used to it. You won't be able to file for support for any months prior to your filing for support so you will only get from the time you filed. If he wants visitations he will have to file and he has that legal right and he will get the visitations you can't deny him that. You will have to served and when you are be sure that you appear in front of the judge and ask for sole custody,he might want joint custody and that will be determined by the judge. However if you don't go to court then they can ask for anything and you don't want that to happen.

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Answer 2 / 3 - Submitted 615 days ago...

Chick599

Chick599

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Like I said, I did file at the beggining of this year, I have sole custody an he has standard visitation, but he's never been interested, his wife was the one who came up with the idea that he tries to prove me unfit and fight me for custody so he didn't have to pay the child support; he himself said that he wouldn't visit our child until she was older and he could explain himself to her and she could understand. I don't know what to expect from them, but I see nothing good for my child coming out him showing up one day after many years of absence.

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Answer 3 / 3 - Submitted 602 days ago...

sweet420

sweet420

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Are u receiving child support right now? Did you get the courts to add the back support from the day she was born? thats 30 months of child support that is owed to you. providing diapers for a year does not constitute paying child support. And in order for them to get custody of your child they are gong to have to prove that u are an unfit parent, that you are a danger to this child in some way and being that you have been the sole provider for the child and only parent there is no way the courts are going to grant their motion to take ur child away. All u have to prove is that he never showed up for visits. You probably did not have a parenting plan or custody decree set up because he was hiding it all from his wife, but once you have that if he misses a visit, write it down and keep a journal. He hasnt made any attempt to parent this child until he was forced to by his angry wife who just wants to destroy you for what you did with her husband. Its going to be ugly if they pursue. But you should have a strong case and only under certain severe circumstances will they take the child especially at her age away from the mother. not going to happen. The wife is just pissed her man had a baby with someone else, get an attorney or get ready to fight girl, wifey is coming for you.

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