Legal Question in Family Law in Tennessee
visitation /custody
My daughter will be 2 years old next week .Her father has never really been in her life except on and off for the first 2 months and dissapeared and has denied her from the day I told him I was pregnant.At 17 months I tracked him down and my father talked him into taking a DNA test at my expense. He was in fact the father.Juvenile court then declared him the legal father and gave him weekly supervised visitation. He has not shown for a visit 1 time and a second court date has been set for child support on March 31st,by this date it will be 11 months with no contact from him. What are the chances of him recieving another chance at supervised visits or getting unsupervised and what can I do about it .I feel that he will never be stable and if he starts visiting he will only dissapear again and leave my daughter with a broken heart. Any advice will be helpful.
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: visitation /custody
Your daughter is two years old. She is not going to suffer a "heartbreak" if Dad visits two or three times and stops. She will simply forget about him. It sounds as if YOU are the one concerned about heartbreak.
What are the father's chances of getting visitation? Nearly 100% if he presses the issue. If he does not seriously want to visit, he is not likely to press the issue, and if he does, that is an indication that he WILL visit.
Allow it. If you fight it, and successfully prevent him from seeing her, your daughter will one day learn that you did and will hate you for it.
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