Legal Question in Family Law in New York

Re: wanting full custody

You would need the help and support of your child's physician or health care providers, teachers and school social worker or nurse.

You would also need the cooperation of your child. Which it is unlikely you will receive.

You would need to be willing to subject your child to testing, probing and examination by pyschiatrists, social workers and so forth.

Then Even if you succeed in changing the custody terms, it will be a "hollow" victory. For in "winning" you would surely lose your child forever, for taking her father away and "abusing" her with your idea of correctness.

What you appear to want to do is limit and restrict your child's father's contact, influence and relationship with your child because you have different values or ideas about child rearing.

What you should be doing is redoubling your efforts to provide your child with an enriched and enriching and fun environment to the extent that whatever "negative" influences may exist in her life are not what controls her or her options.

GOOD LUCK,

PHROSKA L. McALISTER, ESQ.

Re: wanting full custody

Probably by itself what you describe will not be enough. You will have to show proof that he is abusing her or neglecting her so that her safety is at issue.

What you describe may not be ideal, but does not hinge on the child's well being, at least in the short term. IT's just differences in family styles and although I'm sure bothersome to you, will most likely be viewed to the cort as a parent not so much looking out for the child but vindictive towards the father.

No doubt, your differences in lifestyle contributed to the unhappiness in your marriage which led to your divorce.

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