Legal Question in Civil Rights Law in Ohio

Filing Civil Suits against interferring third parties involving parenting

My ex husband has notified me that he is planning to file a civil suit against me and a woman that have become friends because our children are all fathered by him. He warns us not to talk and that the children should only be united in his presence. We both feel that the children will only benefit by seeing us with a friendship and it really does not apply to him when we meet. Can he file a civil suit and if so, on what grounds?


Asked on 6/05/02, 2:23 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Charles Aspinwall Charles S. Aspinwall, J.D., LLC

Re: Filing Civil Suits against interferring third parties involving parenting

The law will not permit a civil suit to proceed on the basis you describe. The best interests of the children are always the criteria in any legal proceeding involving them. Unless someone can show that those interests are not being served by your friendship and that the children are being somehow harmed by associating with each other, you have nothing to worry about. Anyone can file a lawsuit, but keeping it filed is something else.

He is trying to buffalo you for his own purposes. Don't let him continue to do to you what he has done in the past or you will experience the same result.

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Answered on 6/06/02, 9:39 am


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