Legal Question in Family Law in Florida
I have been divorced for 10 years and I've had shared custody of my twin daughters now 14yrs old I met a woman 3 1/2 years ago and she as well as twin daughters Now 17yrs old .for the first two years of our relationship my daughters and my new wife's daughters were best friends they were inseparable my daughters and their new stepmom are also very close they shopped cooked and did other activities together we all went on vacations together cruises, Disney, camping. Two years into my relationship I spoke to my children And asked them how they would feel if I was to get remarried they were very happy and excited 2 days after I spoke to my children my ex-wife confessed her still love for me and no one could ever love me the way she does she has also been remarried for about eight years now. Within days after our conversation my children will no longer come and visit me anymore they say they hate my new wife and has never liked her they were acting. My children has made accusations against my wife stating she beats her own children all the time as well as curses at them all the time and when they came to the house for visitations they they were made to feel like they had to steal food because it was not provided with him all of which is not true. For the last year and a half my children have refused to come to my home to refuse visitations on weekends I will only see me if I am not near my wife or my now stepchildren they state that they are afraid to come to the house because my wife will mentally and emotionally hurt them. I've never enforced my weekend visitations as I do not want to force him to do something they do not want but I am at the point I want to spend more time with my children. When I pick my children up on mid week visitations from school for last year I've been taking them to parks or restaurants because I refuse to be around my wife. This is causing a huge separation between myself and my wife and it needs to stop nothing that they say is true it is all been lies and they're never in any harms way my wife loves my children and despite the lies and accusations made against her she still willing to allow them in the home. Should I force my visitations
2 Answers from Attorneys
If you have a court ordered visitation schedule then you can enforce it, the kids opinion does not matter, the order is from a judge they have to go.
Sounds like to me your ex wife has threatened the children that if they visit she will punish them. Have you actually spoken to your children on this issue. It is odd that if they were once friends then now because you married they are now angry. Need to get to the bottom of this. Enforce the visitation and see what happens. They will probably refuse to come and you will need to get the court to intervene by having the court appointment a social investigator and find out what is really going on.
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