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My boyfriend's ex-wife has a personality disorder. She abandoned her children for almost a year before trying to have some visitation. She has not been able to stick to a consistent visitation schedule and cancels or asks to have the children picked up early frequently. In recent months, she has been admitted twice to the hospital for threatening suicide. My boyfriend currently has full custody with her having un-supervised visitation. We do not think it's safe for the children to be around her alone. We also don't think that the constant changes in visitation are good for their well being. They seem extremely upset when she cancels. We have stopped telling them in advance if they are going to see her to avoid their disappoint. She is also verbally abusive to us if we can't or won't accommodate her needs. We want to know if we are able to prohibit her from visitation on these grounds.
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Prohibiting a parent from contacting communicating with his or her children is not fair. As long as she is not life threatening towards the children you guys should allow her to see the children. The part about children being alone with her needs to be modified based on the facts you have provided. This can be done through modification petition in court. So you will ask the judge to grant her supervised parenting time that she will stick with. Instead of giving her a flexible schedule give her a limited fixed schedules that you know and think that she wouldn’t be able to miss. You guys can try to be flexible with her this year if after doing what I suggested does not improve the situation and or it gets worsen you guys can take more stricter measures to cancel parenting time until she seeks help. I would love to work with you guys on this case. Feel free to review my profile to learn a bit more about myself, I usually travel states to states on a case by case based. If you would like to work with me I would be happy to. Reach out via the contact form to tell me more about the case via phone.
Answered on Jan 16th, 2018 at 10:24 PM