Arkansas
My wife's mother has always had a bit of a drinking problem(After she was informed that her daughter, my wife, was pregnant she got drunk and accused her of sleeping with a man of a different race). When our daughter was born, we said she could only babysit her if she was sober(and I mean kick the habit entirely). She agreed and watched our daughter one day a week for roughly 5-6 hours a day and we visited her almost every weekend along with the grandmother's father. She was doing well when after 3-4 months( my daughter was a year old before we felt comfortable with her staying over) we went to pick up our daughter and noticed the grandmother had been drinking while our daughter was in her care. We denied to let her ever watch her again and that we'd only visit on the weekends in the future.
Fast forward two years and she's still drinking and now harassing us to let her babysit our daughter again. We told her "no" numerous times and gave her the reason that we couldn't trust her to not endanger our child's life again. She recently started making bold assertions that my grandmother(child's great grandmother) is abusing our child(great grandmother babysits during the week while we work) and, of course, never provided proof. Needless to say the child loves my grandmother and has never come home with cuts or bruises out of the ordinary. She recently removed my wife from her will and said that she only loved our daughter and that my wife only liked my family for the money(we were in a rough spot with bills and my family loaned us money which we repaid). There have been numerous other occasions of verbal abuse from her, mostly while under the influence, but she's started being verbally abusive while not, to our knowledge, intoxicated.
I want to, legally, separate this woman from our daughter because she will also harass my grandmother while she takes our daughter to the park or library. My wife has agreed, and I was wondering what steps I could take to insure that our daughter never comes into contact with her maternal grandmother again.
My wife's mother has always had a bit of a drinking problem(After she was informed that her daughter, my wife, was pregnant she got drunk and accused her of sleeping with a man of a different race). When our daughter was born, we said she could only babysit her if she was sober(and I mean kick the habit entirely). She agreed and watched our daughter one day a week for roughly 5-6 hours a day and we visited her almost every weekend along with the grandmother's father. She was doing well when after 3-4 months( my daughter was a year old before we felt comfortable with her staying over) we went to pick up our daughter and noticed the grandmother had been drinking while our daughter was in her care. We denied to let her ever watch her again and that we'd only visit on the weekends in the future.
Fast forward two years and she's still drinking and now harassing us to let her babysit our daughter again. We told her "no" numerous times and gave her the reason that we couldn't trust her to not endanger our child's life again. She recently started making bold assertions that my grandmother(child's great grandmother) is abusing our child(great grandmother babysits during the week while we work) and, of course, never provided proof. Needless to say the child loves my grandmother and has never come home with cuts or bruises out of the ordinary. She recently removed my wife from her will and said that she only loved our daughter and that my wife only liked my family for the money(we were in a rough spot with bills and my family loaned us money which we repaid). There have been numerous other occasions of verbal abuse from her, mostly while under the influence, but she's started being verbally abusive while not, to our knowledge, intoxicated.
I want to, legally, separate this woman from our daughter because she will also harass my grandmother while she takes our daughter to the park or library. My wife has agreed, and I was wondering what steps I could take to insure that our daughter never comes into contact with her maternal grandmother again.