What rights does my son's biological father have?
We are in New York City. My baby boy's father and I have not been together as a couple since I was 4 months pregnant. Due to various reasons, I chose not to put him on my son's birth certificate. I left the "father" section blank. I have never asked anything of him but he comes and visits his son 2-3 times/week and is having 10% of his weekly paycheck debited into an account I created solely for my son. We always argue, however, and he keeps threatening to take me to court so that he gets more freedom in seeing his son (i.e. I don't allow him to take my 4-month old to his house where the landlord smokes pot and there's always construction going on. I also don't let him take the baby out of my sight for more than 2 hours. In addition to me solely breastfeeding, I just don't feel comfortable with his capabilities as a responsible father.) I'm just wondering how far this could actually go. Would he be able to eventually get equal rights as a parent? Also, he is not a U.S. citizen. He has his green card but not his citizenship. Not sure if that makes a difference. Thank you in advance for any help.