No court arrangement for custody, can child be taken by other parent
My daughter is 11, 12 in December 2010. She has always lived with me and has visited her father weekly and biweekly. She is a responsible girl, (Girl Scouts, first aid training, self deffense classes). He has a live-in girlfriend that our daughter does not get along with. Complains of verbal abuse when her father leaves the house or the room. I have explained the situation to her father who doesn't believe it. Am I required by law to force her to spend time in this environment?. There has never been a legal custody arrangement. She has always lived with me, he pays child support directly to me. I pay medical, dental, optical and life insurance. He is claiming she is to young to be home alone for 3hrs and is using this argument to force her to stay at his home with his girlfriend while I am at work Mon-Fri returning to me on the weekends. I told him no. Can he legally go take her from my home and not give her back?