Legal Question in Family Law in Illinois

I share joint custody of my 14 year old daughter with her father. He lives in a different county. She is supposed to live with me during the school year, but for the past 4 months she has been staying with her father, because she wanted to spend time with him. Her behavior has changed drastically; she's using the internet and texts to talk innappropriately to boys and men, she snuck out of their house and met a 21 year old and had sex with him, getting detention at school, the list of bad behavior goes on. I did not hear about the incident with the 21 year old until a week later, because step-mom felt it was daughter's "responsibility" to tell me. Dad won't talk to me, hasn't in years. He leaves everything up to step-mom, but when I express my concerns, step-mom shrugs me off, claims she has "spoken" with her husband about my concerns. I want to seek full custody of my daughter, and somehow enforce dad's participation in the raising of our child, and get him to stop hiding behind step-mom. I'm concerned daughter will want to contiunue living with dad because he lets her get away with whatever she wants, just so she'll want to stay with him. She does not get disciplined for her actions, and to this day is still allowed unsupervised access to internet and such. Daughter has depression, and her condition has declined since she's been at dad's, she has begun hurting herself. What are my chances of receiving full custody and reduced visitation for dad, if he's not more participative in daughter's care?


Asked on 3/09/10, 5:38 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Jonathan Shimberg Shimberg and Crohn, P.C.

This area does not lend itself to percentage responses. If you seek that type of relief you could win or lose. There are too many variables to be able to say anything else

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Answered on 3/16/10, 10:28 am


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