I want to gain sole custody of my 18month old daughter but am starting to lose hope because everywhere I’ve read its all for the mother. Has there been any cases where the father won custody? What were the circumstances?
If you want your partner’s childs to have visit rights, most likely you aren’t going to get ‘sole’ custody.
I have primary physical custody of my son in law, joint legal custody (meaning God forbid if there was an accident while he was with his dad and they couldn’t get a hold of me, his father could tell the doc’s to do whatever they needed to do).
a lot of courts won’t take a baby away from living with it’s mother primarily unless she’s proven to be unable to care.
Call your local juvenile district relations court, they will inform you what you need to do, what papers you need to fill out, etc. It’s quite a complex process. I filed back in early july and we finally got everything sorted out 9 months later.
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Another note – if you have any questions, feel free to send me an email. Unfortunately I’ve been thru this stuff before, so I’d be happy to give you some advice if I can !