What is the name of your state? Florida
I have a 21-month old daughter with someone I was never married to. We lived together while I was pregnant and he is on the birth certificate. He has been semi-involved in her life, but mostly it depends on his moods. By this I mean that he has huge mood swings. He has cut himself, all up and down his arms. He has been fired from 7 jobs in two years. He lies to me for no reason. It seems to be a compulsion. On two seperate occasions, during visits with our daughter at his father's house, he has told me upon pick-up that he let her eat dirt and chew on his toothbrush. I'm pretty sure that he wanted to see what I would do. When I brought up my concerns with his mother, she told me that he was diagnosed schozophrenic a couple of years ago, but has refused treatment because the medication didn't mix well with the Oxy-Contin he likes to snort and it gave him a seizure. I have had no intention of cutting him out of our daughter's life, but he seems to be obsessed with this idea, even though he has been seeing her at least one time a week. I do not feel comfortable, however, after all of this, with unsupervised visits. I haven't had to address this, because he has seen her at his mother's house, so his mother is there.
Would any of this even matter to the courts? I would like to be able to get a lawyer and have him psychologically tested, since he refuses to do so on his own. I am also concerned about the drug use. If he was on medication, it would surely improve our daughter's life. Is any of this possible? Criticism, advice, and opinions are all requested and welcome.
I have a 21-month old daughter with someone I was never married to. We lived together while I was pregnant and he is on the birth certificate. He has been semi-involved in her life, but mostly it depends on his moods. By this I mean that he has huge mood swings. He has cut himself, all up and down his arms. He has been fired from 7 jobs in two years. He lies to me for no reason. It seems to be a compulsion. On two seperate occasions, during visits with our daughter at his father's house, he has told me upon pick-up that he let her eat dirt and chew on his toothbrush. I'm pretty sure that he wanted to see what I would do. When I brought up my concerns with his mother, she told me that he was diagnosed schozophrenic a couple of years ago, but has refused treatment because the medication didn't mix well with the Oxy-Contin he likes to snort and it gave him a seizure. I have had no intention of cutting him out of our daughter's life, but he seems to be obsessed with this idea, even though he has been seeing her at least one time a week. I do not feel comfortable, however, after all of this, with unsupervised visits. I haven't had to address this, because he has seen her at his mother's house, so his mother is there.
Would any of this even matter to the courts? I would like to be able to get a lawyer and have him psychologically tested, since he refuses to do so on his own. I am also concerned about the drug use. If he was on medication, it would surely improve our daughter's life. Is any of this possible? Criticism, advice, and opinions are all requested and welcome.