I believe from this post and your daughter presently resides in another state. If she does and has lived there for the past six months, she needs to consult with an attorney in that state for advise regarding custody. Until she lives in this state with the minor child for a period of six months this state does not have jurisdiction over your granddaughter for the purposes of child custody. If your daughter is being physically abused and her safety or the safety of her daughter is compromised, she should call the police or consult with an attorney in her state immediately and seek a protective order.
Helena M. Nevicosi
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Hi all,
This matter does not pertain to me specifically…but is of urgency and pertains to my daughter Ria and my 1st grandchild Ella, her child who is two yrs old. My dgtr Ria, 29 yrs old now, is in a mess right now and about to have a breakdown. Ria married a man a few years ago in state of Ohio who is 20 yrs older…and they had Ella. Her husband has 5 adult boys about Ria’s age. My dgtr moved into her husband’s home with the 5 adult boys. It soon became a castastrophe since the “boys” all laid around the house without jobs.all never completing HS.having drinking parties at the house very often bringing in underage women right and left to sleep over. completely disrespectful towards Ria who worked all day having the skilled job that surpassed her new husband’s income by a mile…becoming the bread winner. Ria’s husband would not step in to stop all this activity and the cursing towards my daughter…infact he was doing his thing and ignoring my daughter on all levels including intimately, she was invisible, and went thru a horrid pregancy working up to the last moments. Her husband is extremely controlling, has hit her, threatening…Hope you will not quickly judge her…for on many of her trips to me here in NC for short term sabaticals…she met a man her own age here in NC. she is now pregnant by him (one month). He is a wonderful, also a professional like herself. They are deeply in love and want to marry.Would have to know all to understand. HUGE PROBLEM being Ella…my grandchild. Her husband does not know she is pregnant and about the man in her life who has bought them a new home and a new life. Husband however wants to take Ella w/permanent custody as they have talked divorce for many moons. Is threatening in a violent way. QUESTION: is there a way my daughter can take herself and Ella here immediately as she needs to get out of Ohio and get some kind of child custody jurisdiction in NC and then get a divorce in NC somehow. Time is of course of the essence for Ria is pregnant. Main concern is ELLA and my dgtr getting custody here in NC with reasonable visitation for her now husband. I have heard that one can do so…somehow. Thanks for listening to this can of worms.