Legal Question in Family Law in Florida
Child Abduction
My daughter flew to Pakistan, to marry a Pakistani man(who she met on the internet), taking my 2 yr. old granddaughter and leaving an unsuspecting husband here. She and her husband (here in the U.S.) were not divorced or separated. My son-in-law plans on divorcing my daughter when and if she returns but also wants full custody of the child and wants charges of child endangerment, child abduction, kidnapping and bigamy brought against her.
How much of a chance does my son-in law have of getting what he wants?
2 Answers from Attorneys
Re: Child Abduction
It's not child abduction or kidnapping to take your own child away, even if the father is unaware or objects, so those charges won't stick. I don't know if bigamy is illegal in Pakistan where she got married, so I can't answer that question, but I doubt that it matters, since I doubt he can cause Pakistani charges to be brought against her. The bigamy charge won't be brought in Florida, chances are, because she didn't get married for the second time in Florida. I don't know about the child "endangerment" charge (we don't really have that crime in Florida, but we have something close to it), because you didn't descibe how the child was put in danger.
Getting "full" custody is almost impossible, and you really haven't described anything that would make a judge rule so severely against her except that she married someone else while she was still married, but that happens more often than you'd think.
I'd say his chances are slim.
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