Legal Question in Family Law in Indiana

Visitation

The non-custodial parent takes our child for visitation at 6pm Fridays every other weekend. By 10pm he has left our child with his relatives and doesn't return until 3pm the next afternoon. The non-custodial parent simply goes out that night and goes home, then works that next morning into the early afternoon. After work he spends the remainder of his weekend with our child. This goes on every time he has visitation now and has for the past 3 months. What rights do I have as a custodial parent? Can visitation be ''pushed off'' to other relatives?


Asked on 3/14/04, 6:08 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Mary Ann Wunder Wunder & Wunder

Re: Visitation

Absolutely. If he needs daycare for the child while working, he is free to check amount his relatives or family members first. If they cannot or will not watch the child, then he is obligated to offer the child back to you during that period before he finds someone he has to pay. Although you may be somewhat outraged that he is "pushing the child off" on his relatives, it is in fact the most reasonable manner in which he can share his child with the rest of his family when he has a work schedule that interferes with the particular time the visitation or parenting time guidelines set.

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Answered on 3/15/04, 3:16 pm


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