Legal Question in Family Law in Alabama
My daughter is almost five years old and she has never met her biological father. I have married and the man I am married to is the one she knows as daddy. Now all of a sudden the biological father wants to meet her. I have been told that as of right now he has no legal standing because he is not on the birth certificate. But my question is that if i allow him to see her will he have any legal standing. I'm not asking him for anything as far as child support, and I am not putting him on the birth certificate, but I have thought about letting him meet her under the pretense that he is just a friend on mommy's and daddy's, nothing more. Will this give him any legal standing?
1 Answer from Attorneys
What you were told is wrong. He has legal standing, meaning he has every right to file a petition to establish himself as father of the child. Assuming he is adjudicated the father, he will then have the duty to pay support and will also have the right to visit with the child. If he poses some sort of danger to the child or is otherwise not appropriate to be around the child, you may be able to convince the judge to have his visitation restricted in some way (supervised for example), but absent that, he's got a right to establish a relationship with his child and visit with her.
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