falishagarroutte
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Ok, our son just turned 8 in March. My husband is not his biological father, however, he is the only father Brendan knows and to him, he is "DADDY". His biological father has never been involved nor does he want to. He has been invited to be a part of Brendan's life, but to no avail, so I quite trying. To make a long story short, my mother started saying negative, hurtful things about my husband to Brendan. One day Brendan came home from school and had written "I hate my dad" on his folder. So we quit letting Brendan go over there so as to not subject him to anymore of that phsycological turmoil. So my parents then took us to court, we didn't show up to the court date because it had been changed and we were not notified. So because we didn't contest it, they were reluctantly awarded visitation. The kicker is, my mother had Brendan's biological father go and say that he has been told to stay away from us and to never show his face, and he felt like he had been stripped of his parental rights. So the visitation they were awarded is every other weekend, every Wednesday from 6pm-8pm, a week for Spring Break, a week for Christmas, and an entire month during the summer. This sounds to me like they were awarded joint custodial visitation, which doesn't make sense. I have always had sole custody of Brendan, but now because my mother doesn't like my husband and is phsycologically hurting my child because of it, she/they are supposed to see Brendan more? He doesn't like going over there this much and has verbalized it to me and my husband, and my grandparents. She has harassed us and will harass us if we don't make him go with her when he doesn't want to. She won't let him call me when he is over there. We don't have very much money right now because my husband got hurt working for the Railroad and is going back to school right now. I would like to take them back to court to reduce the visitation. Is there a way that we can do that without a lawyer, or ask to speek to the judge about the case? Please help!
Thanks
Falisha Garroutte
Do we have to make him go?
Thanks
Falisha Garroutte
Do we have to make him go?