Legal Question in Family Law in Pennsylvania

Re: visitation of daughter

You need to get a custody order in place. Without an order specifying legal custody, primary physical custody and partial custody there is nothing to keep him from taking the child. Further if you were to seek child support having a custody order is vital to proving the child lives with you.

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Re: visitation of daughter

Since you and your husband are separated, you should file a Petition to Confirm Custody. You want to court to grant you sole physical custody with only supervised visitation to your husband. To be granted sole custody, you have to meet a pretty high burden. Thus, you will have to show how your husband's violent past makes it improper for him to be granted partial custody and, that his violent history makes it necessary that all visitation with the children be supervised.