Termination of Parental Rights

[eg77668]

I went to court with my son's father back in March 2008 and established temporary standardized visitations. The first visit that my son had with his father was after the hearing and was only for 2 hours. In those 2 hours, my son suffered two fractures to his left elbow. When his father brought him home (note, not immediately), I rushed him to the ER and followed up with a Pediatric Orthopedic doctor. My attorney and I immediately approached the judge and she ordered a temporary restraining order against my son's father for failure to provide medical attention. Long story short, his father failed to make the emergency hearing, even after being served the papers, failed to make any supervised visitation and failed to make the final hearing in May. He has been ordered supervised visitations since May and has made any attempt at all to visit with his son. His child support is supposed to be $202.52 per week and I'm lucky if I get $100. I pay $177.60 for insurance for my son and he is supposed to reimburse me, but has failed to do so. I make my son available for him to visit, but he fails to show up. There have been two instances at our local football games, where his father walked right by him and failed to acknowledge him. My son had surgery in July, and his father was informed, but failed to even call to check on how he was doing. At this point, I want to have his rights taken away from him completely, but don't know if I would be able to. What do you think my chances are of brining this up to the judge and having it come out my way? Please help!

 

[jacksgal]

Judges frown upon taking a parent from a child even an absent one. Unless you have a current husband willing to adopt the child the chances of TPR being granted are very small. Besides if Dad is barely around if all the TPR wont change that.

 

[Duranie]

unless you are remarried you probably cannot do a TPR. He does not have to see the child but he must pay CS .You can ask for supervised visits.