Legal Question in Family Law in Georgia

Absent father has me served with custodial papers asking for primary custody. He and his family are now trying push visitation.

The father has been absent for the past 15 months of our child's life (he left when he was 3 months). When we did live together, he never provided care for her. Suddenly, after no contact, I was served with papers petitioning for primary physical custody and granting me visitation. I responded to his petition with a more realistic parenting plan (sole physical custody, liberal visitation plan after a 3 month supervised visitation period in order to build relationship with toddler, etc.). He refused to be served (I have emails from him saying so), and is trying to push parental alienation. His family and him are trying to push a visit and I don't think it's a good idea until after a parenting plan is agreed upon. Will this reflect badly on me? We were never married.

I emailed him a year prior urging him to remain in his child's life and asking for him to help me come up with a parenting plan that would ensure involvement in his life. He responded to the email defensively, and disregarded my request for active involvement and a parenting plan. He has always known he was the child's father and he did sign the birth certificate.

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