Mother Knows Best, Right?

Divorce. It is a word that no one attempts to reflect on for a long period of time. Today, over half of those married in the United States go through at least one divorce, but are also likely to in proceeding marriages. However, many of those going through a divorce do not accurately take the proper time to evaluate assets and truly figure out what division should be given to each spouse. Divorce is sort of like trading, the individual goes for one item, and gives up another. However, when within a divorce, what are the custody limitations on children when a mother receives the custody of a child and a father is given visitation rights?

Usually within most divorce cases, custody of children is primarily given to the mother over the father unless some other situations have arisen, or the mother is entirely unfit for the role of primary parent, or guardian. Many mothers think that they have the right to do whatever they want with their lives after the divorce, including their children. However, this assumption is greatly inaccurate and can even impact future custody of children being changed from the mother directly to the father.

The mother violated the father’s visitation rights by not only by not allowing his right consistently, but also catering to her needs versus the children’s. The mother, without properly informing the father, relocated her children to a new home, and a new school approximately 42 miles away from the father. Clearly, if someone had your children and you were a parent you would want to know where they were every second of every day. The mother also was either two hours late for dropping the children off, or picking them up from the father’s custody with no disregard to any previous engagements set aside by the father to accommodate the visitation.

The coldest thing the mother could have done, she did. When the children were dropped off and picked up she used that opportunity to argue, and berate the children’s father in front of them not only attempting to tarnish the image of the father, but also doing it to herself. She also attempted to make the children see her new boyfriend as a father figure in their lives, and attempted to let him take the full role of the father instead of their actual biological father.

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