QUESTION
Can my ex husband have unsupervised visitation?
Asked on Jun 12th, 2015 on Child Custody - Oklahoma
More details to this question:
My ex husband is a registered sex offender. We have 2 children together. One is a 12 year old girl and the other is a 9 year old boy. In our divorce papers, it states he can have supervised visitation. But he is now asking for unsupervised. Our daughter is now coming to the age of the girls that my ex husband got in trouble with. But he is now remarried and his wife will be there most of the time. I am afraid that someone will recognize him from the sex offender registry and he may be with my daughter in a public place like a grocery store and that someone may call the police. Could I possibly lose custody of my children? They live full time with me. What should I do?
1 ANSWER
The court order for supervised visitation is valid until he persuades a court that a modification is in the best interest of the children. Your preference is not controlling at present, nor is his. You are both required to abide by the order of the court. If you were to decide to make up your own rules, and something inappropriate were to transpire, how would you explain your decision to disregard the existing order? If he seeks court approval to modify, it is incumbent on you to decide whether to resist the effort or agree to it. Either way, the court will decide based on the standard of what is in the best interest of the children. It wouldn't be a complicated decision to my way of thinking.
Answered on Jun 12th, 2015 at 8:58 PM