What rights will the father lose if the mother is granted joint custody with primary care?
my husband and I are currently seperated. I am wanting joint custody with primary care. our daughter is 5 years old and I believe that this would be best for her. of course, her father disagrees with me and thinks we should do joint custody 50/50. He continues to say that he is giving up all rights to his daughter if he agrees to what I am asking. He has just received a DWI and has a suspended drivers license. Will this affect the judges decision? He also is wanting to call a friend of mine to court because he thinks we have a sexual relationship. How will this affect this man? he has full custody of his children and I don’t want to cause him any problems. I am very confused and really don’t know what to do.
Tagged with: drivers license • dwi • full custody • joint custody • judges decision • primary care • sexual relationship
Filed under: General Joint Care
If you are seperated, you can have a sexual relationshipw ith another man. It has no bearing on your child custody case. Tell him he is free to subpeona your friend, because the judge will not want to hear about any personal relationship you may or may not have with him. And if you are, it wont’ affect the other guy at all. No one cares if 2 consenting adults are having sex, assuming you are not doing it in front of the child.
If you have joint custody and you have managing conservatorship- the child will live with you, and he gets every other weekend custody and a few additional times over the year- like holidays, spring breaks, a few weeks over the summer, etc. He will also have to pay you child support.
Use the DWI. Put in your child custody documents that he is not allowed to drive with her in his vehicle until he provides a current, VALID driver’s license to the court. Also, you can put in there that he cannot ahve ANY alcohol in the home while is there, or consume any in her presence. Alot of judges will have no issues putting that in there. You may even be able to enforce conditions of his parole or whatever for the DWI- forcing him to attend AA or other alcohol counseling in order to have his visitation.
Do not go for shared study. He got a DWI and is a very serious threat to the welfare of the child. He is an addict, because drugs and alcohol are both drugs. Go for sole custody with court supervised visitation only for the husband. He will drink and drive and endanger the child. Protect the child at all costs. No 50/50 is good enough. 100 percent to you only! This is a no business. Keep him away unless he can show he is totally off alcohol and in a treatment program and winning in the program.
Most courts will give joint custody with the mother being the prime caretaker. He will not be giving anything up at all. He will be given visitation nd will pay support. You will be able to move and do what you need to do with your child. I do believe that with him loosing his license it will affect him in court because he cant take child anywhere without someone else helping him.
He can say you cheated on him and BLA BLA BLA but the courts are only worried about the welfare of the kids.