Legal Question in Family Law in Arizona
Is there any legal way to keep my son from going over his mom's house. Her parents are constantly fighting and this last weekend when he came home it took us (my mom and myself) 3 hours to calm him down. I have physical custody as he stays at my house because his mom and I are still in high school and my mom takes care of him while we are at school. His mom gets him for a few hours every Tuesday and Thursday and every other weekend. He was supposed to be there this last weekend from Friday to Monday afternoon (due to the holidays we are out of school), but she sent me a text message Sunday night just before 7:00 pm asking if I could come pick him up as her parents were having a fist fight and they had been arguing all day and he would not stop crying. I do not want to keep him from his mom but I am worried about his well being in her house. We dated for over 18 months and I have seen the violence that exists in her house.
1 Answer from Attorneys
If you have concerns about the access while at Mom's house, you certainly have the right to seek a modification to the Court's orders. If you can convince the Judge that Mom is not handling it well, changes should be made.
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