Legal Question in Family Law in Indiana

Parenting Time (Visitation)

I've been paying child support now for 10 months on a weekly basis now after not paying for 9 months from when child support was established. this being said, I have yet to recieve any kind of parenting time, Visitation, with my boy Dakota. His mother left him for her mother to raise and moved away and has been gone since he was 1 and he's 5 now. I'm told i need to get a lawyer to fight for visitation. At my income level at this time i can't afford these high price lawyers and i know she will. Why do I have to Pay a lawyer to just see my own son? and How can i convince the courts against her high payed lawyer? it would be like beating a dead horse


Asked on 10/30/07, 2:58 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys

Re: Parenting Time (Visitation)

You need a lawyer to handle court procedures regarding your child just as you may need a mechanic to fix your car, an electrician to rewire your house or a plumber to fix a bad pipe. We have special knowledge that the layperson does not have and unfortunately court proceedings, especially concerning children can be very complicated. Parenting time with your child is not the equivelent to filing a small claims case over a ruined jacket from the cleaners.

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Answered on 10/30/07, 3:15 pm


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