How To Take A Child Custody Or Visitation Case To Court: Fill & Download for Free

I exposed my narcissistic ex up front today. It was about something important with respect to our son and his school, grades, and attendance. It was done politely but, still, I did it.This was the response I got. (Our communication is solely done through the Our Family Wizard app.)So, how do they react to being exposed? And, in my case, when it’s one week before he takes me to court asking for sole custody … and only supervised or no visitation for me whatsoever?Like a fucking child.

My 1st husband, claimed he wanted sole custody of our daughter. She was less than 2 years old. While we were still married and living together, he took care of her ONE time, while I went grocery shopping. When I returned to the house, 2 hrs later, he very emphatically told me, “Don’t ever do that again, I don’t like babysitting”.While I was in the hospital for a week, with major surgery, when she was less than 10 months old, on the 3rd day, he called me on the phone, and demanded, I discharge myself and, “Get home now, I am NOT your babysitter”. (He and my mother were sharing child care duties)He held up our divorce for over a year, taking me to court, for anything and everything he could think of. He wanted custody, he wanted to live with her in a construction site trailer, set in the middle of a junk yard. He asked to spend time with her, I agreed to let him have her for ONE hour. Me, “Do not go down to the bar, she’s a toddler. You can manage to stay away from the bar for one hour.”I return to pick her up, he’s not home, he’s at the bar with his new GF, AND our daughter.This is the ex-husband, who spent the night in jail, for a 2nd offense drunk driving arrest, (during the divorce proceedings).I refused to consent to overnight visitation. The divorce decree states, visitation every Sunday, 1–5 PM, WITH a person approved by the Friend of the Court, AT a place approved by The Friend of the Court. I had the legal right to refuse visitation if I SUSPECTED he had been drinking up to 24 hrs prior to visitation.He saw her maybe 4 x then nothing……………….for approx 15 years.I’ll let the readers here decide for themselves.He really wanted custody for the welfare of our daughter? Or control and spite?

In the United States, your in-laws don’t have a leg to stand on. As long as you and your husband have legal custody of the child, the two of you can move to whatever state you like. Your in-laws have no legal right to tell you where you can live. They have no legal right to custody of the child. They have no legal right to visit the child.If they take your child away from you, they have committed the felony of kidnapping. In California, they’re looking at a penalty of up to 11 years’ imprisonment, depending on the circumstances.If they take your child away from you and transport it across state lines, they have made things even worse for themselves. In that case, they could be looking at federal charges carrying a penalty of up to 20 years’ imprisonment.Some of the other people who have already responded to this question have raised the possibility that there might be some issues with regard to your own legal right to the custody of this child. If CPS has become involved because you’re not capable of parenting this child for whatever reason, you have to comply with any court orders that might have been issued. But unless there’s a court order in place that gives your in-laws custodial rights, they cannot take your child against your wishes.EDIT (4/22/20): In light of some of the comments people have posted, I have decided to post a brief explanation of how grandparents’ right statutes work and why the existence of a grandparents’ rights statute would make no difference under the facts the OP has provided.All 50 states have statutes that provide for grandparent visitation in some form.In most states, these statutes provide for grandparent visitation, not custody.These statutes do not permit self-help. The grandparents would have to file a lawsuit and convince a judge to give them a court order granting visitation.The US Supreme Court held in Troxel v. Granville (2000) that grandparents’ rights statutes may violate a parent’s constitutional right to make decisions concerning the upbringing of their children, especially in the absence of a judicial determination that the parent is unfit to raise their children.It is true that grandparents can sue for visitation, and sometimes custody, IF the parent has been deemed by a court of competent jurisdiction to be a unfit parent, and IF the grandparent has a preexisting relationship with the child.Those are big “ifs.” In order to force grandparent visitation over the parents’ objection, we would need to have both of them. In reality, we have neither of them. In the OP’s case, we have no reason to suppose that there has even been any CPS involvement at all, let alone a judicial determination that the OP is an unfit parent. And since the child has not yet been born, it is logically impossible for the grandparents to have a preexisting relationship with it.