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Question for my sister, please help if you can
Sister has a 3 year old daughter. Dad is military and recently has started paying CS. He is to get visitation once a month with my sister present for 2 months and then move up to 2 visits every month and then after that every Saturday for 4 hours unsupervised. A little history, he has not ever really wanted to be involved he has been in and out of my nieces life. He would see her for an hour than go two months before calling my sister again. She tried to call him but he would never answer her call. Last year he went "missing" not even his Sergent's could locate him. He later turned up and somehow got out of trouble with his unit but had gotten another girl pregnant. This girl wants him to have no contact with my niece and since he has little interest himself he does what she wants. So he and this girl are now married, she keeps telling my sister that he cannot put my niece on Tricare because he is married to her so the Army doesn't recognize my niece as his daughter. My hubby's military and i know that's bull crap. Last weekend he and my sister were to meet at his parents house, his parents have been somewhat involved. My sister pulls up and he and his wife tell her that my niece is an embarrassment and they cannot visit with her there, yet his wife would not agree to go elsewhere for the visit. He is leaving for Iraq or Afghanistan in a month or two. My sister wonders how visitation will be worked out after his return. Will it start over again since he would have gone a year without seeing her? Once he returns what would be a reasonable amount of time to give him to try and see her before trying to change the visitation. My sister has given him every opportunity to be involved and he just brushes it off. If he don't take advantage of what he has so close to a deployment can she modify anything now or should she wait. When he comes home nobody thinks my niece will be on his people to see list. What can she do in this situation?
Question for my sister, please help if you can
Sister has a 3 year old daughter. Dad is military and recently has started paying CS. He is to get visitation once a month with my sister present for 2 months and then move up to 2 visits every month and then after that every Saturday for 4 hours unsupervised. A little history, he has not ever really wanted to be involved he has been in and out of my nieces life. He would see her for an hour than go two months before calling my sister again. She tried to call him but he would never answer her call. Last year he went "missing" not even his Sergent's could locate him. He later turned up and somehow got out of trouble with his unit but had gotten another girl pregnant. This girl wants him to have no contact with my niece and since he has little interest himself he does what she wants. So he and this girl are now married, she keeps telling my sister that he cannot put my niece on Tricare because he is married to her so the Army doesn't recognize my niece as his daughter. My hubby's military and i know that's bull crap. Last weekend he and my sister were to meet at his parents house, his parents have been somewhat involved. My sister pulls up and he and his wife tell her that my niece is an embarrassment and they cannot visit with her there, yet his wife would not agree to go elsewhere for the visit. He is leaving for Iraq or Afghanistan in a month or two. My sister wonders how visitation will be worked out after his return. Will it start over again since he would have gone a year without seeing her? Once he returns what would be a reasonable amount of time to give him to try and see her before trying to change the visitation. My sister has given him every opportunity to be involved and he just brushes it off. If he don't take advantage of what he has so close to a deployment can she modify anything now or should she wait. When he comes home nobody thinks my niece will be on his people to see list. What can she do in this situation?