7kids2parents
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What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? IL
My ex girlfriend and I have a child together. We were together for the first 2 years after the birth. When we split up my ex moved in with her parents with our child. She stayed there for the next year and a half. I fought for visitation because my ex would not let me see my child after I got remarried. It took almost 6 months to get my visitation rights established.
Now my ex has moved out of her parents home and to a different county. She has taken my child with her and refuses to tell me where she is living now. Her parents told me she moved in with a guy who just got out of jail for beating up the mother of his child and he is not allowed to have visitation with his own children. Her parents say that she leaves our child with this guy while she works 12 hour shifts. My child told me that he was spanking her. I called DCFS but they said since there were no bruises that they couldn't do anything, which seems like crap to me.
Does my ex have the right to move and not tell me where she is keeping my child? And does she have the right to endanger my child by having the guy around?
Also she has violated our visitation order since she moved she says she doesn't have the gas money to drive the 50 miles to our drop off point which she picked out when the visitation was put in place. The police wrote her a ticket but it has never been given to her because she has been having her mother bring our child to me trying to avoid this. I read somewhere that if the custodial parent moves and does not notify the non custodial parent within 15 days that this is considered kidnapping. Is this true?
I served her with custody papers and have not seen or heard from her since. She missed one visitation since then and has had her mother bring her to the other visitations. I am not sure if I have any chance of getting custody or not but I want to try. I cannot afford a lawyer so it makes it more difficult but neither can she.
One more thing, she wasn't letting her parents see our child either until recently. She will only let them keep her if they give her money. If they give her gas money the child can stay for 1 night but if they give her $200 she will let the child stay the whole week. When I picked my child up last weekend for visitation I was told that they had had the child for 2 weeks straight and was planning on keeping my baby as long as they could afford it. Is their anything I can do about this? I feel that my ex is selling our kid.
My ex girlfriend and I have a child together. We were together for the first 2 years after the birth. When we split up my ex moved in with her parents with our child. She stayed there for the next year and a half. I fought for visitation because my ex would not let me see my child after I got remarried. It took almost 6 months to get my visitation rights established.
Now my ex has moved out of her parents home and to a different county. She has taken my child with her and refuses to tell me where she is living now. Her parents told me she moved in with a guy who just got out of jail for beating up the mother of his child and he is not allowed to have visitation with his own children. Her parents say that she leaves our child with this guy while she works 12 hour shifts. My child told me that he was spanking her. I called DCFS but they said since there were no bruises that they couldn't do anything, which seems like crap to me.
Does my ex have the right to move and not tell me where she is keeping my child? And does she have the right to endanger my child by having the guy around?
Also she has violated our visitation order since she moved she says she doesn't have the gas money to drive the 50 miles to our drop off point which she picked out when the visitation was put in place. The police wrote her a ticket but it has never been given to her because she has been having her mother bring our child to me trying to avoid this. I read somewhere that if the custodial parent moves and does not notify the non custodial parent within 15 days that this is considered kidnapping. Is this true?
I served her with custody papers and have not seen or heard from her since. She missed one visitation since then and has had her mother bring her to the other visitations. I am not sure if I have any chance of getting custody or not but I want to try. I cannot afford a lawyer so it makes it more difficult but neither can she.
One more thing, she wasn't letting her parents see our child either until recently. She will only let them keep her if they give her money. If they give her gas money the child can stay for 1 night but if they give her $200 she will let the child stay the whole week. When I picked my child up last weekend for visitation I was told that they had had the child for 2 weeks straight and was planning on keeping my baby as long as they could afford it. Is their anything I can do about this? I feel that my ex is selling our kid.
