Answered by stephpan - Mar. 22, 2013 6:25pm
The answer is yes - there are things you can legally do to keep her away from him, but it will take a decision by the court. The long and short of it is this - you need to talk to an attorney - as soon as possible. Its important to iron out these issues as quickly as possible after the birth of your child. If the father of your child (with his history and all) has partial custody of your child you may not win in a battle to keep her away from him without some evidence that she is a danger to your child. My guess is that you would have better luck going for sole custody of your child and only allowing your ex to have supervised visitation with no further contact from his family. You can try representing yourself - but I think you'd be better served starting with an attorney.
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Answered by edwina2021 - Mar. 24, 2013 1:10pm
SHE SHOULD NOT HAVE ANY RIGHT TO THE CHILD! Watching and doing nothing is as bad as doing it your self. You can forgive your husband and work things out because you had a child together and he will always be there. When my child comes my father and his wife will not be in my babys life and they can yell and threatn me all they want. What it comes down to is can you trust that person to watch the angel and take care of him/her... You can legally have it to where she cant be around your child even if the baby is visiting the father or with the father. The courts can easyly grant that. But your child dad would have to follow that also. And if he cant then you may have to have both of them out of the child life till they can see that its unfit to have the grandmother around.
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Answered by a member - Mar. 23, 2013 2:54pm
If you are in the states, I believe they do have something called grandparental rights that she can pursue - In Canada, there is no such thing - I know, my Mother tried using that on me when she kidnapped my daughter 8 years ago and told me that there was nothing I could do about it. (Yeah, right)
Also, I wanted to add - even though everything is good with your baby's father now, there is nothing stopping him from returning to his usual antics once that baby is out of your womb. I would suggest that you look out for not only yourself but for that unborn child as well. You need to be a strong woman in this circumstance - I am speaking from experience - once I kicked the garbage to the curb where it belonged, I was able to find my amazing husband.
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