Legal Question in Family Law in Arkansas

Parental Rights

At birth a fathers child gave up all his parental rights. Even though he gave up his rights he had the child 80% of time,up until 2 1/2 years ago. During this time of him having his daughter the mother had very little contact with them. The mother had a very sever drug and drinking problem. (The father had the child for almost all of her life raising her all by hisself, and did a very find job.) One day the mother's mother called and asked if he could bring the child to visit her mother whom at that time was in a alcohol and drug rehab program, so he did. Much to his surprise, the grandmother took the child and disapperared with her. To make matters worse the mother has since ran-off and married his cousin. It's like he was there for his little girl one day and the next day he was taken out of her life. Belive me if he had it all to over again he would, because he truly does love his daughter. My question is does or can he in any way fight for his rights as the birthfather??? What are the steps he needs to take??? I know somewhere the is a court or a law that would be able to help him.

Thank you in advance for any information that you will be able to assist me in.

Sincerely,

--name removed--


Asked on 9/18/99, 10:27 am

2 Answers from Attorneys
Barbara C. Johnson Law Office of Barbara C. Johnson

Re: Parental Rights

Go to http://www.missingkids.com/html/index_weblinks.html

to find her first. Then you'll know which court to go to.

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Answered on 9/21/99, 8:13 pm
Jes Beard Jes Beard, Attorney at Law

Re: Parental Rights

The father needs to contact a local, flesh and blood attorney to draft a Petition fro custody and get the thing filed in court as quickly as possible, and if the case is presented properly (and the post above is an honest representation of the facts), he will probably win custody, and he may even be able to get an order of temporary custody signed immediately on filing the Petition and before the full case is heard.

But the father needs to take immediate action instead of simply weakly flailing about and moaning about his situation over the internet to attorneys who could not possibly provide real assistance since they are not there to go to court!

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Answered on 9/26/99, 1:45 pm


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