Father is drinking.visitation rights?
My sons father and I were never married and live 3 hours apart... over the last 5 years we have met half way to exchange visitation... he has never once showed up to pick up our son, his mother has always done it and she has always been the "decision maker" when it comes to his fathers opinions.. she is retired and has nothing better to do but meddle in our raising of our son. First I have to say that we have no court ordered visitation and things have always been amicable. Until recently (in the last 3 months) my son has been coming home talking about how his dad is drunk all of the time and how he finds his hidden liquor bottles behind his bed. He has always had a drinking problem but I feel that it has gotten worse since he recently lost his job( actually his last 3 jobs) He once got a DWI on the way to pick our son up... hence the reason for my serious concern! So I have stopped taking him to meet them half way and wrote up a visitation agreement that I feel was completely fair ( every other weekend and alternating holidays) but I put in it that he would need to be supervised by his parents. I didn't feel this would be asking too much since he lives with them and they are wonderful grandparents... however now they have started a war and are taking me to court and I was just wondering what I need to know before this all happens... whos rights are what and so forth... I am a single parent and hiring an attorney is going to be costly so I wanted to do as much of the foot work myself as I could.