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If I have joint legal custody of my child with her paternal granparents, is she

I share legal custody with my daughter's paternal grandparents. They have physical custody.Her father has supervised visitaion.I live with her grandparents and am still a mother to my child. They were granted custody because i had left my child's father who was abusive to me and I had no job so i could't financially take care of her. I ended up getting engaged to somebody else over a yr and a half ago. I stay with him on the weekends and we plan on getting maried real soon. I wanted to know if I could take my child with me to stay as long as she wasn't in any harm. In states in the agreement that I am granted resonable visitation. Their excuse is that she can't stay with us until we're married, which is fine except for the fact that their saying my daughter can't come with us until I have a car and a job. I don't need either of the two since my fiance makes enough to take care of us. and I'm not getting married and living away from him as well as I'm not getting married and leaving my daughter. I think that thier using whatever power they have and going overboard a bit. I am a good mother regardless if I can't afford to take care of her. I just want to know what I can do. Thank you


Asked on 11/19/02, 10:21 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Michael Hendrickson Law Office Michael E. Hendrickson

Re: If I have joint legal custody of my child with her paternal granparents, is

Your right to "reasonable visitation" with your

daughter does not include the right to remove the child from the home of her paternal grandparents who have physical custody and veto power over the arrangement you are proposing---without a change in the court order.

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Answered on 11/21/02, 10:45 am


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