Legal Question in Family Law in Kansas

I have 3 yr old son and his father and I were never married His Father is a convicted sex offender and to my knowlege is still on parloe His Father was not convicted of crimes with a child but still a registered sex offender he also wway and s convicted of saudomy and assult with a deadly weapon

When his Father first got out I tried to make it work with him until about 3 months later I caught him shaking my son terribly bad to dicipline him after that I kicked him out and all his vists are at my house and he has never taken our son alone. I have had a counselor in place for the last year for my son and i and had doccumented what had went on now his Father wants me just drop him off to him 2 hrs away for visits and is threatening to take this to court could he get any kind of unsupervised visitation with all that he has on his record


Asked on 10/02/10, 11:01 am

1 Answer from Attorneys

Anthony Smith LawSmith

It is impossible to say that someone will never get unsupervised visits, absent thier parental rights being terminated by a court. But, given the information you provided, it sounds like you ahve a good case for asking the Court to order that visits be supervised. If you plan to refuse to "hand the kid over", then you shoudlo consutl direclty with an attorney in your area, to go over your options. If you wait unitl the father fiels a Motionwith the Court, you may be at a disadvantage. No one wants to spend more money than they have to. It is possible that your refusal to allow visitation, without seeking an Order of the court, could get the father custody and you paying chidl support with yrou own limited visitation. Based upon what you described, there is no reason that you have to deliver the child two hours away for a visit. The father needs to show why he cannot come get eh child, or at least meet you half way.

Good luck

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Answered on 10/07/10, 2:11 pm


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