Are you divorced? Is there a child custody agreement or order in place? If not, you do not have to let the man see your son at all! If nothing is in place, then either one of you has “equal” rights to the child, married or not, divorced or not! Until there is a legal document, each parent has equal rights! If he has the child and wants to take the child to Africa without some sort of order in place, then he can! You need to get some type of agreement or court order regarding your son.
Yes, if you go to court you will have the chance to express all of your concern. You will also be able to talk about the father’s lack of relationship with these child and all the reason’s you believe supervised visitation and parenting classes are important.
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My son is 8 years old. The father and I have not been together since I had my son. He has been in an out of my son’s life. He has not came to my home to see my son since Dec of 2007. Now my son wants nothing to do with him, he won’t talk to him nor does he want to see him. Since then I have had another child, my baby is 5 months old. The father is not upset and keeps passing threats to me that he will take me son back to Africa and now he wants to take me to court for visitation and custody. I have never keep my son from him but now my son just won