Legal Question in Family Law in Florida

Re: custody and visitation

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These are two entirely different questions. First, absent any particular problems which you have not disclosed, you are not doing anything improper by giving your sister the right to take care of your son for three days while you are out of the country.

Secondly, whether or not your son's father should have visitation is not your decision to make. Only a judge can decide that your husband is not a fit parent to have visitation rights. If you deny your husband his parental rights of visitation without a court order, you are violating the law and his rights which may subject you to problems in the court.

Scott R. Jay, Esq.