Update
Update. I will not be giving the case number. The hearing today was continued to October to give the mother a chance to hire a lawyer to assist in the custody issue. The judge excused himself and set it up before a special judge in October.
Temporary visitation schedule was worked out between the mother and father. All transfers of the child will be between the mother and father, not the father's mother, at the Sheriff's Dept.. The father's mother is to have NO contact with the mother.
A Court Order was prepared that the child must be given back to the mother at the end of the visitation period (the grandmother had threated the mother that she would not do this in the past). If she refuses to give the child back, she is now in contempt and the police can be called to return the child to the mother.
FYI, for a clarification. The Prosecutor's Office WAS going to work with the mother in getting child support established. They do that here. The child is on Medicaid (because of the mother's age and being still in high school) and they offer this free or next to nothing, to force the birth father to contribute to the child upbrinnging and not have public support and the taxpayers pick up the tab.
Thank you for all your advice. At least we felt that we were not walking into the situation blind and knew some of the things to ask for and to watch out for. The mother will hire a lawyer (with family support) and get the custody matter straightened out. Hopefully the child will remain with the mother.
It seems that the bottom line is that the father's mother wants custody of the child and to raise it as her own. The father is a 17 year old boy and he could care less if the child lives with him. He does not even take care of him or stay at home when he has had visitation in the past. I think that all of this could have been avoided if the father's mother had simply not threateded the child's mother. Visitation had been fine until she began the threats and did not want to give the child back after visitations.
Update. I will not be giving the case number. The hearing today was continued to October to give the mother a chance to hire a lawyer to assist in the custody issue. The judge excused himself and set it up before a special judge in October.
Temporary visitation schedule was worked out between the mother and father. All transfers of the child will be between the mother and father, not the father's mother, at the Sheriff's Dept.. The father's mother is to have NO contact with the mother.
A Court Order was prepared that the child must be given back to the mother at the end of the visitation period (the grandmother had threated the mother that she would not do this in the past). If she refuses to give the child back, she is now in contempt and the police can be called to return the child to the mother.
FYI, for a clarification. The Prosecutor's Office WAS going to work with the mother in getting child support established. They do that here. The child is on Medicaid (because of the mother's age and being still in high school) and they offer this free or next to nothing, to force the birth father to contribute to the child upbrinnging and not have public support and the taxpayers pick up the tab.
Thank you for all your advice. At least we felt that we were not walking into the situation blind and knew some of the things to ask for and to watch out for. The mother will hire a lawyer (with family support) and get the custody matter straightened out. Hopefully the child will remain with the mother.
It seems that the bottom line is that the father's mother wants custody of the child and to raise it as her own. The father is a 17 year old boy and he could care less if the child lives with him. He does not even take care of him or stay at home when he has had visitation in the past. I think that all of this could have been avoided if the father's mother had simply not threateded the child's mother. Visitation had been fine until she began the threats and did not want to give the child back after visitations.
