Legal Question in Family Law in Michigan
visitation out of the country
I am the mother of a five year old daughter. In my divorce, I was awarded joint legal custody with the father and sole physical custody. For the last year we have been working out on our own a visitation schedule that accomodates us as well as our daughter. My concern is a request from the father who wants to take our daughter out of the country to Rome for two weeks next summer. I feel she is too young and would not be taken care of properly or responsibly since the father is going there for business and will be leaving our daughter with a hotel babysitting service. Can he legally take our daughter out of the country if I am against it?
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: visitation out of the country
Assuming your judgment says reasonable and liberal visitation to the father, if you feel that the arrangement the father has is not in your daughter's best interests, then you will have to take it up with the judge. If it allows him to have that time specifically, you still have the option of going before the judge to stop that trip. It does seem a bit self-centered for the father to go on business with a 5 year old and take her. Tell him that you'll go along with it if he takes you, pays for separate rooms, etc. so that you can watch her (just joking). William S. Stern
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