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can my step daughters father request more visitation rights to his daughter in court?

the girl im with has a 4 year old daughter. the father of said daughter signed all custody to the mother in court. she now has full custody, the court has told her that any decision making regarding her daughter is now in her hands alone as well as any visitation rights for the father. the father sees the daughter 5 days a week and complains that it is not enough. he told the mother that he is going to the court to get more visitation rights because he feels what she is doing is illegal. he gave up all of his custody rights, can he still contest in court in the state of michigan?

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    he can always take it to court. Full custody doesn't mean no visitation.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    What we have here is human nature rearing its head. You are probably co-cohabiting with the mother of this child. Naturally enough the father is feeling somewhat aggrieved that you are seeing more of his daughter than he is. Surly you can understand that. This situation will continue until he finds himself another lady, and she will probably have children, so the cycle of jealousy will continue with her ex husband.As a lawyer, I see this sort of thing almost on a daily basis, so I am able to add my input to this problem with a lot of experience. The last thing that your lady friend should do is to start using the child, either intentionally or by implication, as some sort of weapon to get back at the child,s father. I have seen it happen more times than I can count and it always comes to grief, one way or another. He is probably going to start all kinds of actions with the courts just to prove a point of fatherhood. And so it goes on. My advise to you and the childs mother,is to let the father have as much visitation as he want, do not put any blocks in his path. And you will see that by Christmas the visits will become fewer. When he has a permanent lady friend, they will almost disappear. So to reiterate my advise, play a waiting game and you will come out on top without it costing a fortune fighting him. Time is on your side. Do not, I repeat do not get macho because then you will lose. Again I say time is on your side.

  • 5 years ago

    reckoning on the place you reside the regulations for toddler custody differs. once you divorced a parent plan would desire to have been positioned into place. That parenting plan is a binding settlement between the former spouses on how the youngster would be raised and what toddler rearing judgements would be made by using whom. Any violation would desire to be stated to the courts. in the experience that your daughter needs to stay with you and he or she is the finding out age than take that to court docket besides. i'm divorced.I stay in Illinois and my ex lives in Tennessee. We bothpersistent 0.5 way each time for visitations.

  • IceT
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Yes. Just because she has full custody doesn't mean that he cannot take her to court to try to get more, especially if he is paying any child support

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  • 1 decade ago

    Custodial rights and parental rights are different.

    He does have the legal right to ask a judge to alter the current agreement.

  • LCee
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    He can take her to court.

    He may not have a case,but parents change their mines all the time.

    If she is receiving child support from him she may consider cutting all ties to him & making it on her own.

    Every state is different so tell her to check with the family court in MI

  • 1 decade ago

    Yes, he can, but he won't. My experience tells me this is just a lot of hot air. Ignore it and it will pass. He probably can't afford a lawyer anyway. In Michigan the average attorney fee is $250 an hour.

  • 1 decade ago

    visitation and custody can always be reviewed and changed by the court.

  • 1 decade ago

    He can go back to court and ask. It's if the judge agrees after consulting with all interested parties (that's you) that matters.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Yes, doesn't mean he will get what he wants

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