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Father’s custody rights in Texas?

  • Posted on April 15, 2011 at 2:20 am

My son has a 5 yr old daughter. He was never married to her mother. When daughter was 3 mos. old they went to court for child support. The Atty General handled everything. Mom was given custody of child. Child is now 5 yrs old, the mother has been living with the child at her parents house. In the last 5 yrs the mom has lived w/her boyfriend for at least 2 yrs and has left the grandparents to raise daughter. They have joint custody but mom is the “primary”. My son has asked several times if daughter could come live with him and he could become primary. He has been more involved in her life. They (grandparents are involved) have said no that mom is a good mom and there all the time for her daughter. Since then the mom has admitted to my son (on tape) that she was on Meth. from the time daughter was 3 mos old to just recently. She is hardly ever around. She also stated (on tape) that her mother (grandma) has controlled everything. My son had a few legal problems (marijuana) several years ago but not since. He is 25, is going to school full time, has been offered a presidential scholarship from the college and is trying to get into a work study program. He has his own place & I am helping with finances until he can get thru school. One attorney has told me that because of his prior legal problems, no job right now and the fact that his daughter has lived with grandparents for last 5 yrs that even if he could prove mother is unfit and their daughter would be in a better enviroment with him, that the grandparents could sue for custody and could very well win. I do not understand how they could do this if his daughter living with them is only due to her mother not wanting to take on the responsibility. He has talked to them several times about her living with him and they have not wanted to work this out. Mom has had 5 years to get it together and he wants to raise their child but now I am being told that the grandparents can try to get custody and could. What about the “parents” rights?
The first time they went to court, they didn’t say anyone was unfit. They put her in her mother’s custody because they were never married and I assume that’s what they felt was best at the time. They were both young.

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Father’s custody rights in Texas?

  • Posted on April 14, 2011 at 3:21 am

My son has a 5 yr old daughter. He was never married to her mother. When daughter was 3 mos. old they went to court for child support. The Atty General handled everything. Mom was given custody of child. Child is now 5 yrs old, the mother has been living with the child at her parents house. In the last 5 yrs the mom has lived w/her boyfriend for at least 2 yrs and has left the grandparents to raise daughter. They have joint custody but mom is the “primary”. My son has asked several times if daughter could come live with him and he could become primary. He has been more involved in her life. They (grandparents are involved) have said no that mom is a good mom and there all the time for her daughter. Since then the mom has admitted to my son (on tape) that she was on Meth. from the time daughter was 3 mos old to just recently. She is hardly ever around. She also stated (on tape) that her mother (grandma) has controlled everything. My son had a few legal problems (marijuana) several years ago but not since. He is 25, is going to school full time, has been offered a presidential scholarship from the college and is trying to get into a work study program. He has his own place & I am helping with finances until he can get thru school. One attorney has told me that because of his prior legal problems, no job right now and the fact that his daughter has lived with grandparents for last 5 yrs that even if he could prove mother is unfit and their daughter would be in a better enviroment with him, that the grandparents could sue for custody and could very well win. I do not understand how they could do this if his daughter living with them is only due to her mother not wanting to take on the responsibility. He has talked to them several times about her living with him and they have not wanted to work this out. Mom has had 5 years to get it together and he wants to raise their child but now I am being told that the grandparents can try to get custody and could. What about the “parents” rights?
The first time they went to court, they didn’t say anyone was unfit. They put her in her mother’s custody because they were never married and I assume that’s what they felt was best at the time. They were both young.

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Father’s custody rights in Texas?

  • Posted on April 13, 2011 at 4:22 am

My son has a 5 yr old daughter. He was never married to her mother. When daughter was 3 mos. old they went to court for child support. The Atty General handled everything. Mom was given custody of child. Child is now 5 yrs old, the mother has been living with the child at her parents house. In the last 5 yrs the mom has lived w/her boyfriend for at least 2 yrs and has left the grandparents to raise daughter. They have joint custody but mom is the “primary”. My son has asked several times if daughter could come live with him and he could become primary. He has been more involved in her life. They (grandparents are involved) have said no that mom is a good mom and there all the time for her daughter. Since then the mom has admitted to my son (on tape) that she was on Meth. from the time daughter was 3 mos old to just recently. She is hardly ever around. She also stated (on tape) that her mother (grandma) has controlled everything. My son had a few legal problems (marijuana) several years ago but not since. He is 25, is going to school full time, has been offered a presidential scholarship from the college and is trying to get into a work study program. He has his own place & I am helping with finances until he can get thru school. One attorney has told me that because of his prior legal problems, no job right now and the fact that his daughter has lived with grandparents for last 5 yrs that even if he could prove mother is unfit and their daughter would be in a better enviroment with him, that the grandparents could sue for custody and could very well win. I do not understand how they could do this if his daughter living with them is only due to her mother not wanting to take on the responsibility. He has talked to them several times about her living with him and they have not wanted to work this out. Mom has had 5 years to get it together and he wants to raise their child but now I am being told that the grandparents can try to get custody and could. What about the “parents” rights?
The first time they went to court, they didn’t say anyone was unfit. They put her in her mother’s custody because they were never married and I assume that’s what they felt was best at the time. They were both young.

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Father’s custody rights in Texas?

  • Posted on April 12, 2011 at 5:20 am

My son has a 5 yr old daughter. He was never married to her mother. When daughter was 3 mos. old they went to court for child support. The Atty General handled everything. Mom was given custody of child. Child is now 5 yrs old, the mother has been living with the child at her parents house. In the last 5 yrs the mom has lived w/her boyfriend for at least 2 yrs and has left the grandparents to raise daughter. They have joint custody but mom is the “primary”. My son has asked several times if daughter could come live with him and he could become primary. He has been more involved in her life. They (grandparents are involved) have said no that mom is a good mom and there all the time for her daughter. Since then the mom has admitted to my son (on tape) that she was on Meth. from the time daughter was 3 mos old to just recently. She is hardly ever around. She also stated (on tape) that her mother (grandma) has controlled everything. My son had a few legal problems (marijuana) several years ago but not since. He is 25, is going to school full time, has been offered a presidential scholarship from the college and is trying to get into a work study program. He has his own place & I am helping with finances until he can get thru school. One attorney has told me that because of his prior legal problems, no job right now and the fact that his daughter has lived with grandparents for last 5 yrs that even if he could prove mother is unfit and their daughter would be in a better enviroment with him, that the grandparents could sue for custody and could very well win. I do not understand how they could do this if his daughter living with them is only due to her mother not wanting to take on the responsibility. He has talked to them several times about her living with him and they have not wanted to work this out. Mom has had 5 years to get it together and he wants to raise their child but now I am being told that the grandparents can try to get custody and could. What about the “parents” rights?
The first time they went to court, they didn’t say anyone was unfit. They put her in her mother’s custody because they were never married and I assume that’s what they felt was best at the time. They were both young.

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To Fathers & Daughters, lend me your Ears?

  • Posted on March 8, 2011 at 4:21 pm

I’m wantin’ to bring a Father, back into a close Relationship with his Daughter. They’ve been seperated by their own addictions. But I feel there’s enough there, to make it worth patching up. If there is any Recovering Alcoholics, out there? I’d love, Your take on this? And should an Outsider, step in?

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father’s rights/ family’s rights to baby?

  • Posted on January 3, 2011 at 7:21 pm

my baby’s father is debating whether he wants to sign our daughter over to me/my boyfriend because he doesn’t want to have to pay child support (money matters more than anything to him including his own daughter). i just want to know if he does end up signing his rights over does his pain in the ass mother have her own rights to my daughter? like can she take me to court and have court ordered visitation because someone told me she can and i’ve never heard of this. if he signs her over i thought he’d be no more than a sperm donor. i also think it would be really messed up for them to order me to let her see my daughter when his entire extended family are a bunch of heroin addicts (not the baby’s father or his mother- but they will take my daughter over to hang out with the drug addicts because they have no common sense). any positive and knowledgeable feedback would be greatly appreciated thanks!!

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What do you think After My Daughter’s Death — A Father’s View of the Immigration Debate?

  • Posted on September 24, 2010 at 1:22 am

My 16-year-old daughter, Tessa, was killed by an illegal immigrant in Virginia Beach three years ago while sitting at a stop light. Her friend Ali Kunhardt, 17, also perished instantly.

Beautiful girls with tons of future plans, they had just stopped at a convenience store for a pack of gum at 10 on a Friday night. I can imagine that they were giggling about something as they waited for the red light to turn green. Tessa was in the passenger seat. I’ll never forget her laugh.

The explosion was so loud that witnesses said it sounded like a bomb going off, hit from behind by a black Mitsubishi going more than 70 mph. They were tiny, skinny little girls stuffed somewhere in the floorboards when the police and EMT crew arrived.

When I got to the hospital in what seemed like a dream sequence, Tessa’s bed was lying next to Ali’s, separated by a privacy curtain. Both girls were perfectly still, skin cold to the touch.

Tess was covered with a hospital blanket, and her clothes lay in a bag by her bedside, cut off by the EMT and the ER doctor who tried to revive her, to no avail. I looked at her large brown eyes, pupils dilated, eyes wide open, staring at the ceiling. She still had a mask taped to her mouth with a long rubber tube. The center of the tube was filled with bright red blood. Amazingly, she had only a little bruise on her forehead, and her big toe was bleeding. I noticed that she had had a couple of her nails done with glitter, probably had just enough money to do two. She worked at the Golden Corral; Ali worked at The Fresh Market.
I hadn’t seen Tessa in a few days, and I had to laugh at her forearm. Hard to believe you can laugh with such horror around you, but I did. She had previously told me that she suffered from the “Tranchant curse” — dark hair on her skinny little perfect arms — and apparently she had shaved it all off (her way of getting even, I guess).

Alfredo Ramos, a previous DUI offender and alcoholic, seemed invisible in a system that was good at looking the other way. Virginia Beach and Chesapeake were being accused of being “sanctuary cities” as Bill O’Reilly and Geraldo Rivera screamed at each other during the national news hour. O’Reilly was right.

I know what sanctuary means more than most ever will.

Ramos was actually smug at the trial and took his lumps: 40 years in prison. There was nothing I could do but forgive him; forgiveness cleanses the soul. He was an uneducated foreigner patronized by local merchants who needed cheap labor.

Hundreds of thousands of illegals in Virginia do the same. We don’t share a border with Mexico, so the awareness here isn’t as great as Arizona or California.

But the dilemma in Arizona is more important to Virginians than it seems. Last Monday, Sister Denise Mosier was killed in Prince William County. An illegal immigrant from Bolivia with two previous drunken-driving convictions is charged with killing her and critically injuring two other nuns while driving drunk.

As with me, her friends say they have forgiven him and hold no grudges.

Later in the week, in response to this tragedy, the Secretary of Homeland Security said she would get to the bottom of why the illegals are not deported when they are repeat offenders.

Here’s what I would like to tell the Secretary: Ms. Napolitano, ICE was not there in 2007 when my daughter and her friend died. And, though ICE picked up the man who hit Sister Mosier, he wasn’t kept in custody and was sent back out the streets.
This problem is not new.

We know it’s not the people but the system that fails Americans again and again. There have been hundreds of similar stories in America since Tess and Ali died.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/08/10/ray-tranchant-daughter-killed-viriginia-beach-dui-illegal-immigrant-mexico/

Total Deportations, FY2007-FY2010

Number
% change

FY2007
291,060
-

FY2008
369,221
26.8%

FY2009
389,834
5.6%

FY2010 (1st 9 months)
279,035
-3.1%(a)

(a) From same period of the prior FY. Data source: ICE Removals 2007-2010 Excel Spreadsheet

In FY2008—George W. Bush’s last full fiscal year—deportations rose a whopping 26.8% from the prior year. But growth slowed to 5.6% in FY2009, the last eight months of which were on Obama’s watch.

http://vdare.com/rubenstein/100809_nd.htm

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In Texas, can I legally change my daughters name on her birth certificate without the fathers consent?

  • Posted on September 2, 2010 at 8:23 pm

My daughter’s are 4 and 5 and there father has been absent for 4 years. He basically left right after our second daughter was born. He called a few years ago, but when he found out our divorce and a child support order went through without him there, he never called again. I would like to give the girls my last name and wondered if I can amend their birth certificate without his consent. He fled a felony probation charge for a DWI and will have to serve a prison sentence for failing a urinalysis on probation if he ever comes back. I really never expect to see him again and would not be able to find him if I wanted to because he intentionally works under the table to avoid giving a social security number to anyone.

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What Rights do I have as family member/daughter to see father’s Will?

  • Posted on August 6, 2010 at 4:32 pm

Is there any Minnesota case law that states a family member has a right to view a Will. My father died two weeks ago and my estranged siblings [co-representatives to father’s Will and POA’s to mother] refuse to show me the Will; yet everyone in my family including grandchildren have read the Will. I had many conversations with my father over the years and he told me that he was placing certain property in a trust for all six children so it could never be sold. I believe that my mother is a vulnerable adult; she has NO short term memory what-so-ever, and the POA’s are using this to their advantage. I contacted local social services, but they don’t believe that she has been financially exploited [yet.] My Mom will sign anything put in front of her. I am number 4 our of 6 children and estranged from family due to older brother sexual abuse and prominent alcoholism amongst family. I was advocate for Mom but my siblings moved her out of her home and into their Wisconsin homes. Seven days ago my Mom was telling me how much she loved me and we scheduled a lunch date and today I finally got a hold of her but she told me that she never wants to see me again and hangs up on me before I can say anything. Siblings never contacted me for the “reading of the Will” and their lawyer says he needs permission to show it to me. I am worried that anger and revenge have taken hold and I could be written out of the Trusts that my father set up in his Will. My parents had individual Wills leaving each other their joint property. My Mom has not been declared incompetent, as siblings don’t want to do that because as POA’s they claim to be making decisions jointly with her. She may remember what she is signing one second, but only minutes later will completely forget what she just did. If the Trusts are “revocable” can the POA’s change my Mom’s Will and disinherit me? I know about conservatorship and guardianship but that will cost thousands that I don’t have. Should I sue to see the Will? Help. THANK YOU!

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Does Palin’s daughter’s alcoholism come from her father’s problem with alcohol?

  • Posted on July 25, 2010 at 1:46 pm

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/09/01/1318881.aspx

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