As a child gets older, a Court will listen to their wishes, however, until the child becomes an adult, they always have to do what their parents want.

Further, if there is a custody battle, a Court will determine what is in the child’s best interest because the child does not know what is in their best interest, up until they are 18.

Norm

Furthermore, I do not and will not give legal advice through Blog comments. This information on this blog is for educational use only. If you are located in the State of California I highly suggest that you consult with a lawyer who handles juvenile court matters! If you are not in the State of California, I strongly suggest that you consult with an attorney in your State that handles juvenile court matters!

Norm

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Norm

If you have a California Family law matter, and you want a consultation on your case, you may call my office at 818-584-8831 extension 3.

Sorry for not being able to give you more.

Norm

If you have a California Family law matter, and you want a consultation on your case, you may call my office at 818-584-8831 extension 3.

Sorry for not being able to give you more.

Norm

There are many places on the internet where you could look up the California Family Code.

I again invite you to call my office for a consultation.

Thanks,

Norm

If you have a California Family law matter, and you want a consultation on your case, you may call my office at 818-584-8831 extension 3.

Sorry for not being able to give you more.

Norm

The father of a child born out of wedlock has no rights to Custody, Visitation, or Child Support unless they obtain a Court order for the same.”

Thank you in advance,

-Daren Eason

I was not asking for advice, just which law you refernce so I can look it up myself. Can you at least tell me that? The laws themselves are not priveleged therefore I don’t think we need an attorney/client relationship for you to give me a law number , do we? Thanks for any help you can give, and I understand if not – but thank you anyway.

-Daren

In order for the father to at the very least prevent her from leaving the
state (California) so that he may have joint custody, and continue to be
a part of his daughters life, does he need to file for an Order to show
Cause for Custody and Visitation.

This young couple and their 3 year old daughter have lived with me in my
home since before the child was born. We now find that the mother’s
intentions are not what one would call “honorable”, as she has been long
building a “case” of drunkeness and abuse on the fathers part by means of
continuous phone calls to her parents in Oaklahoma…hoping as she states
that she can justifiy “parental kidnapping”, ie: disappearing with the child
while the father is at work, “because she is fleeing an abusive relationship”.
I live in the home with this couple (as it is my home) and am in constant
daily contact and interaction with them…to the point of being referred to
as “grandma” to the child, whom I dearly love, and now feel I have reason to
fear for her future, and her fathers future involvement in raising his child.

What can be done to protect the father’s rights….or more to the point,
what can be done to establish his rights as the father, and the sole support
of both the child and the mother for over 3 years! The young lady’s rather
nasty stepfather informed me, this last time the young lady ran off in the
middle of the night with the child…that since I was not a “blood relative”
I had nothing to say about anything…that being an eyewitness to the fact
that there was and never has been any physical or emotional abuse “dosen’t
mean a d—n thing”….and her claiming he’s a “drunk” comes from the fact
that as a hard working man in a very physical trade (welding)and working in
both extreme heat and or extreme cold, has the desire to enjoy a cold beer
on occaision when he comes home tired…and normally is expected by the
mother to both “take over his share of watching and caring for the child,
cook dinner, wash dishes, clean up the house, and do his own laundry!”…

Personally, given these factors, stress, and level of exhaustion, I think
I’d need more than a cold beer or two to keep my sanity! But of course that
is neither here nor there….what is vitally important is that she has
consciously been building this “case of detrimental words” against him for
a considerable time, enough so that her family will back her claims that
the father is a drunken abuser,(even though they live 2000 miles away, and
have been to our home, and met this young man ONCE….at the childs 1st
birthday, 2 years ago) and she has every right to run and hide his
child from him.

What does he need to do to protect himself from this, and to protect his
rights as a father who dearly wants to keep his family intact, and at the
very least continue to be a part of his daughters life?

C. Martinez

My name is Lance Matthews and I have custody of my children. Because there are no laws to protect fathers in the state of California, I am being punished for having a good job. My ex-wife refuses to get a job so my current wife and I are having to get a second job to pay child support to the non-custodial parent. This is the same non-custodial parent who has had allegations of child molestation substantiated by the Escondido forensic science lab and CPS but the CPS reports were refused to be submitted to the judge by the judge because it took me 5 years to obtain the reports. Judge Lori Kennedy refused to listen to what I had to say, but was more than eager to listen to the mother and gave more time to the mother. We also went to a 730 evaluator and when we received the CPS report after he made his recommendation; we requested him to review his decision and read the report and submit another recommendation to the court. During a phone conference he became very short due to the fact we were questioning his original decision.

My previous attorney had been notified by CPS of what had happened and what to do and he never informed me or filed it in my file. I have the information from CPS that shows his number and that they did contact him and that he was supposed to file it with Family Court and he never did.

I continue to hit a brick wall and it seems that nobody is looking out for the best interests of the children and the fathers. It seems that they are only concerned with the mother who quit the military after 11 years with no job and is living off of the state un-employment and has no intentions of getting a job.

I had contacted Governor Scwarzenegger and his office sent me back to CPS, after I had paid money to send all of the documents to him as requested by his office. All that was done is I was sent a letter and they referred me back to CPS. They would not even send back my files.

Sincerely,

Lance Matthews