Legal Question in Family Law in New York
How do u take rights away from a parent?
My daughter loves her father but he wont call her or see her consistantly.He has visitation on sundays from 12-6pm .Her heart is broken when he doesnt call or show up for her visits.Sometimes he goes months without talking or seeing her.I already had them reduced to the above times.Now I would like him to go away for good, or somehow have him orderd by courts to do something to improve this problem. What is the legal way of doing something and how do I go about doing it? As a single mom income is very low.Thank you for your time and effort in looking into this matter for me.
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: How do u take rights away from a parent?
Your frustration and sense of helplessness in the face of your daughter's pain, in understandable.
However, there is no way for you or the Court to "finalize" the father's "separation" from his child, absent her adoption by another. Even then, your daughter will always be "connected" pychological and emotionally to her father.
The best you can do, is to love, support, reinforce your child's ego, counsel, seek counseling, and so forth. Most of all don't lie or "protect" father or his image to your child.
Stop accomodating his schedule, in hopes that he will come around, this time.
Keep your child busy with fun and enriching things. Your child will ultimately have to adjust or make her own peace with the crappy guy, that is her father. And, You don't want her "peace" to be a reaction against you; or a kind of self annilation, that often accompanies, children who are damaged and abused by their parents in this way.
Good luck,
Phroska L. McAlister,ESQ
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