Legal Question in Family Law in New York

Visitating Father on Weekends or Enjoying Extra Curriculum Activities

My ex-husband DONT want my daughter to continue to go to drama club and Sunday school because her extra curriculum activities she want to go to and enjoys so much interferes with his visitation schedule. He wants to be able to pick her up on Saturday morning drive her to his place and drop her off on Sunday every other weekend. My daughter can not miss so many days from both schools and she does not want too miss any. My ex demand that she drop out of both schools or he will go to court. What can I do?


Asked on 3/26/06, 10:26 pm

2 Answers from Attorneys
Phroska L. McAlister PHROSKA LEAKE McALISTER

Re: Visitating Father on Weekends or Enjoying Extra Curriculum Activities

Try COMPROMISE.

Suggest:

That you Permit your daughter to drop two (2) Sunday School days/month. Let Daughter ask her father to take her to dance, if she wants. Tell HER to explain to father how important the classes are to her. Father can then "choose" to encourage his daughter's performance activity and participate in her life, re this matter, on his own terms.

If the Sunday School thing is important to your daughter, she can be given the text for self study, at your home, for the two days missed. Father's time with daughter will not thereby be infringed upon, by your or your daugher's personal religious activities. Which hopefully results in father becoming more inclined to believe, that his rights with respect to his daughter, being respected.

Good luck,

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Answered on 3/28/06, 11:36 am
Andrew Nitzberg Andrew Nitzberg & Associates

Re: Visitating Father on Weekends or Enjoying Extra Curriculum Activities

This is not unusual. he can go to court, but he might not win.

Sometimes its hard to deal with a father who is a child himself.

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Answered on 3/28/06, 8:16 pm


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