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Originally posted by sunnybunny
My sister is remarried. She has a child from her first husband (a hot surfer who wasn't much of a dad). When she got remarried, her first husband gave up custody and parental rights in order to not pay child support. He had a bit of an alcohol and substance problem and would take the kid out in the car when high/drunk, so you can see why she would want to keep the kid away. I don't think he's any better now. Anyhow, his parents sued for grandparental visitation rights and my sister settled, in order to keep it from dragging on forever. They get the kid for certain periods of time and they are required to not mention their son (re: that he is the kid's father) nor allow their son to have contact with the kid. If he asks about their son for some reason, they are to direct him to my sister. They are not to give out any of my sister's contact info to the dead-beat son. Divorce was like 6 years ago. CHild is 8. Last contact my sister had with ex-husband was aobut 6 months ago. He called at 12:30 a.m. to ask if he could start to see the child again...obviously drunk. My sister chided the grandparents for giving out the contact info and they promised they only did it so that he could talk to her about regaining visitation. They promised to stay out of it and apologized. So, my sister got her kid back after a weedend with the grandparents and they had put the kid on the phone and let him talk to his dad and told him that this was his dad (and not my sister's current husband who adopted him). My sister's really upset. THis likley means more attorney's fees, which she doesn't have (add this to my piling financials). What would you do? Admonish them again? Try to get the visitation revoked or only as supervised????? any thoughts on the best mommy thing to do?
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YOU don't do anything. Some folks seem to always step in shit, and the last thing these people need is to to be encouraged to be litigious. Or encouraged to solicit third parties to pay their "lifestyle bills."
BTW, if her second husband can't afford a family court hearing, you might ask her why she keeps picking such winner spouses.
I have a relative by marriage like this. I won't even talk to her when she asks about "legal issues."
