Legal Question in Family Law in Texas
father demands visitation after 6 years, how do I protect my son?
I will try and be short and to the point. My son is 6, his father and I never married, we split up at 4 months old. He had an anger problem and has assaults, and bipolar and lits of other issues. He started paying child support in 2005 ( 300.00 a month) he has come once a year or once every couple of years to visit, for a few days. Our son never bonded with him or got to know him. The father is more about trophy child to show off, not whats best for son. Now that he is 6, and he is getting married he has decided to push visitation. He lives in Fla we live in Tx. My son would never spend the nnight away from his mom and security of his own home, I explain to him he has a dad that wants to be apart of his life and see him too, my son says he doesnt want to do this, he doesnt know him. so how can i prevent this stranger/father from disrupting our lives?
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: father demands visitation after 6 years, how do I protect my son?
Earlier, I explained that the court is interested in promoting in the father-child bond, and is likely to set up a graduated schedule of visitation, ending in standard visitation and possession.
The fact that the father did not exercise visitation before, is not going to defeat visitation now.
Additionally, if the court feels there needs to be some short-term therapy to reunite the two, and allay any concerns of the child, then the judge will do that.
If there is something dangerous about the dad that should require supervised or restricted visitation, then that evidence needs to be brought to the attention of the court.
That dad is a crappy dad will not defeat possession and visitation.
This is one person's opinion of the end result of the case. If you are convinced that your son will be harmed, then you should immediately retain an attorney to modify the current conservatorship and possession order.
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