Comments on: His father wants to take him…I’m freaking out. http://mssinglemama.com/2007/12/14/his-father-wants-to-take-himim-freaking-out/ Single Mom Dating? Real advice from a real single mom. Mon, 21 May 2012 18:45:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: ladonnamobilehttp://mssinglemama.com/2007/12/14/his-father-wants-to-take-himim-freaking-out/#comment-244 ladonnamobile Sat, 15 Dec 2007 00:29:12 +0000 http://mssinglemama.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/his-father-wants-to-take-himim-freaking-out/#comment-244 My sister's husband only visited his children so sporadically that she got his parental rights taken away! In our state (check your state laws) if one year goes by without any "meaningful contact" a parent can lose their parental rights. In the case of my sister's ex, he had visited, but not interacted with the children. Witnesses to his visits (she enlisted non-family visitors to observe and testify in court) told how he just sat on the sofa watching television, so the judge declared his visits "unmeaningful" and he lost all right to visit the kids. The downside: once the court delcared him a non-parent, my sister lost all rights to child support; she didn't mind because he never paid anyway. My sister’s husband only visited his children so sporadically that she got his parental rights taken away! In our state (check your state laws) if one year goes by without any “meaningful contact” a parent can lose their parental rights.

In the case of my sister’s ex, he had visited, but not interacted with the children. Witnesses to his visits (she enlisted non-family visitors to observe and testify in court) told how he just sat on the sofa watching television, so the judge declared his visits “unmeaningful” and he lost all right to visit the kids. The downside: once the court delcared him a non-parent, my sister lost all rights to child support; she didn’t mind because he never paid anyway.

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