What is the name of your state? : Arkansas
Here is the deal we are faced with, Me and my wife are the parents of a new born baby girl as the time of this writing she is 4 days old.
My wife's real dad is wanting the right to take our baby anytime to his house to show the baby off, and when the baby get's older take her shopping ect.. (unrestricted access) as he calls it.
The problem is that my wife's real dad was never really a dad, my wife was raised by her grandmother who had custody. Now all of the sudden my wife's real dad is wanting unrestricted access to the grand child, my wife and her dad never has gotten along and probally never will, my wife has alot of unresolved issues with her real dad.
My wife does not want our baby to have any kind of contact with her real dad, let's call him Gary.
Gary does not know where we live yet and he has our phone number from a relative, He called our house asking if he can have the directions to our house so he can see the grand child but he wanted me to email him the directions instead of giving the very easy to get to directions over the phone. I told him I would not have a problem with it and he could see the child, but right after I said that, he demanded that he put it in writing giving him full access or (unrestricted access) and if he could not get it, he would take us to court to get it.
I was very offended by this, and told him that the baby was to young to just take and we wanted the baby to stay with us but, he was welcome to come over.
That night me and my wife talked about what was said and now she is hard set not letting he even to see the child in fear that he might run off with the baby. We talked to my wifes (Grandmother / Guardian) aka "Mom" and she said that Gary has really out stepped his bounds on this one and she would talk to him.
Today Gary called again asking for the directions and my wife answered the phone and he asked for me, (David) and she said I was asleep, which I was from a very long night feeding and rocking... and he hung up the phone, he called again 30 seconds later asking for me and she got me up, he demanded that I give him directions to my house and I told Gary that My wife has decided not to allow the baby to see him and He told us that We will see him in court..
Now some details about us..
Me - David age 30
My wife's real dad - Gary age mid 40's
My wife Naomi age 23
What right does Gary have to our baby ? Right now he is tring to make our home a living hell. Now Gary's Mom (my wife's grand mother) is caught in the middle, because she raised Naomi but Gary is her son.
Gary has another son from his current wife and another daughter from another fling that he does not claim, She has a baby and has desperately tried to get him to take a DNA test and have something to do with her new baby. Gary has taken a Blood test almot 20 years ago and it was 99.95% sure but refuses to take a DNA test, Gary has paid 18 years of child support but still refuses to have anything to do with his other daughter.
Why is he taking so much interest in our new baby..?
Does Gary have any rights to even see the newborn since he gave up custody to his mother ?
Any advice would be helpful.
Thanks
Here is the deal we are faced with, Me and my wife are the parents of a new born baby girl as the time of this writing she is 4 days old.
My wife's real dad is wanting the right to take our baby anytime to his house to show the baby off, and when the baby get's older take her shopping ect.. (unrestricted access) as he calls it.
The problem is that my wife's real dad was never really a dad, my wife was raised by her grandmother who had custody. Now all of the sudden my wife's real dad is wanting unrestricted access to the grand child, my wife and her dad never has gotten along and probally never will, my wife has alot of unresolved issues with her real dad.
My wife does not want our baby to have any kind of contact with her real dad, let's call him Gary.
Gary does not know where we live yet and he has our phone number from a relative, He called our house asking if he can have the directions to our house so he can see the grand child but he wanted me to email him the directions instead of giving the very easy to get to directions over the phone. I told him I would not have a problem with it and he could see the child, but right after I said that, he demanded that he put it in writing giving him full access or (unrestricted access) and if he could not get it, he would take us to court to get it.
I was very offended by this, and told him that the baby was to young to just take and we wanted the baby to stay with us but, he was welcome to come over.
That night me and my wife talked about what was said and now she is hard set not letting he even to see the child in fear that he might run off with the baby. We talked to my wifes (Grandmother / Guardian) aka "Mom" and she said that Gary has really out stepped his bounds on this one and she would talk to him.
Today Gary called again asking for the directions and my wife answered the phone and he asked for me, (David) and she said I was asleep, which I was from a very long night feeding and rocking... and he hung up the phone, he called again 30 seconds later asking for me and she got me up, he demanded that I give him directions to my house and I told Gary that My wife has decided not to allow the baby to see him and He told us that We will see him in court..
Now some details about us..
Me - David age 30
My wife's real dad - Gary age mid 40's
My wife Naomi age 23
What right does Gary have to our baby ? Right now he is tring to make our home a living hell. Now Gary's Mom (my wife's grand mother) is caught in the middle, because she raised Naomi but Gary is her son.
Gary has another son from his current wife and another daughter from another fling that he does not claim, She has a baby and has desperately tried to get him to take a DNA test and have something to do with her new baby. Gary has taken a Blood test almot 20 years ago and it was 99.95% sure but refuses to take a DNA test, Gary has paid 18 years of child support but still refuses to have anything to do with his other daughter.
Why is he taking so much interest in our new baby..?
Does Gary have any rights to even see the newborn since he gave up custody to his mother ?
Any advice would be helpful.
Thanks