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Hi. I am the father of a 4 year old girl. I have basically missed the first 3 years of her life, by my own stupid choices. I brought mother to court to set up visitations. We went thru mediation and she gave me a decent schedule after a few supervised visits. Me and the mother have a bad history, which is mostly my fault, alot of lying, jail time for dwi and weed, verbal abuse etc. I have tried to change from this but she isnt sold on it.
My concern is that my daughter doesnt always want to come with me for my visits. She will hold on to her mother at dropoff time and say she "just wants to stay with mommy." Sometimes I get angry about it and walk out just telling my daughter "its not your fault". There are other things my daughter has said about not wanting to call me "daddy", "real family/fake family" which she says comes from the Stuart Little movie (has a "fake family" in it) but I think the mother is putting things into her head and trying to disrupt my relationship. She doesnt deny any visits or anything like that.
The mother does contact me about our daughters "problems" thru emails but I have been ignoring them. I feel like she is always saying its all my fault, even though those are not her words. I feel like she just wants me to leave or something.
I have been searching the net and forums and I see things like Hostile Aggressive Parenting and Parental Alienation. Are these things that I could prove in court? What would be considered proof of this? Could this be just normal behavior by my daughter bc of my absence?
Hi. I am the father of a 4 year old girl. I have basically missed the first 3 years of her life, by my own stupid choices. I brought mother to court to set up visitations. We went thru mediation and she gave me a decent schedule after a few supervised visits. Me and the mother have a bad history, which is mostly my fault, alot of lying, jail time for dwi and weed, verbal abuse etc. I have tried to change from this but she isnt sold on it.
My concern is that my daughter doesnt always want to come with me for my visits. She will hold on to her mother at dropoff time and say she "just wants to stay with mommy." Sometimes I get angry about it and walk out just telling my daughter "its not your fault". There are other things my daughter has said about not wanting to call me "daddy", "real family/fake family" which she says comes from the Stuart Little movie (has a "fake family" in it) but I think the mother is putting things into her head and trying to disrupt my relationship. She doesnt deny any visits or anything like that.
The mother does contact me about our daughters "problems" thru emails but I have been ignoring them. I feel like she is always saying its all my fault, even though those are not her words. I feel like she just wants me to leave or something.
I have been searching the net and forums and I see things like Hostile Aggressive Parenting and Parental Alienation. Are these things that I could prove in court? What would be considered proof of this? Could this be just normal behavior by my daughter bc of my absence?