Legal Question in Family Law in Tennessee
Child Custody
I am a divorced mom married to my new husband, and I have a child at 12. When I divorced I was Manipulated into giving primary custody to my x husband. his lawyer had drawn up the paper stating that I have reasonable visitation. My X husband gives me my son every weekend on sunday from 11-6
I do not feel that I am getting reasonible visitation.
He tries to control when I pick him up when I bring him home, where I take him when he is with me. I
provide his health Insurance, I do the things that are ask of me in the papers he's dad doesn't He does not approve of who I married so he believes he is right. My husband is a 1 time in his 42yrs been arrested and was in jail for 3months, his is now on probation and has a A+ with his probation officer.
It was a blue collar crime, as he calls it a Stupied crime! that will never happen again. My X holds that over my head saying that no judge will give me good visitation with a felon. rights I have?
thank you
2 Answers from Attorneys
Re: Child Custody
You need an order that spells out visitation/parenting time. "reasonable visitation" does not mean anything when you and the father are not in full agreement as to what is reasonable. Contact a family lawyer in you area and discuss the facts with him or her and come up with what you think is reasonable and ask the court to enter an order setting that out. You may not get what yu want, but right now it does not sound like you have a workable situation. Good luck.
Re: Child Custody
First, check my website for advice to parents in custody cases at http://jesbeard.com/6b.htm Then get an attorney and take the ex back to court to set up specific visitation and perhaps even to ask for a change of custody based on the ex's denial of your parenting time. Make sure you document things, remember that in TN it is legal to record the ex when you talk with him ( http://jesbeard.com/16.htm ), without any need to tell him you are recording him. The fact that your husband has a single conviction should not prevent you from winning custody, and certainly is not a basis for denying you your parenting time with the child, unless he was convicted of causing physical harm to the child.
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