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Jenise · Mar 27, 2009, 11:01 PM

I am nineteen years old and just had a baby.I stay in the state of Louisiana.Well the problem is I don't know if I automatically have full custody of my daughter.Her farther is happy that she's born and everything but him and I are different.For the sake of the child I Want him and I to be friends but he claims that he isn't going to be friends with his "baby mamas'' and then he be trying to tell me what to do with our child,like he done helped me in anyway.He has said some crazy things to me like I am jealous of my daughter cause she looks like him and then he threaten to beat me and if I was to have a boyfriend ,he would beat him up to if he held our child.Then he said he was playing but I'm not quite sure if he was playing.I think its going to be best if we went to court for visitation rights because I feel like him and I aren't going to get along and I don't want my daughter to be in the middle of this.I know he's her farther but he needs to remember I am her mother.Its also crazy because he is always asking me back out.How long would it take for me to give him and any of his other family members visitation rights.

stevetcg · Mar 28, 2009, 04:38 AM

First, if he is making threats, call the police. He isn't 'just kidding'. A threat is a threat and not something you should ever have to put up with.

Second, I don't understand what it is you are asking. First you said you want to go to court and got visitation rights, but then you ask how long it would take.

Do you mean you want to put him on a visitation schedule? If so, basically what you do is stop letting him take the child. HE will then have to go to court and request visitation. At that hearing you request child support. At that point he is granted a visitation schedule. How much he gets depends on many factors. How long it takes also depends on a number of things like how busy the court is.

But every time he threatens you, call the police.

ScottGem · Mar 28, 2009, 05:57 AM

Is he on the birth certificate? If so, he's the legal father and has jopint LEGAL custody. However, until a court says otherwise, you are presumed to have primary physical custody, whether he's on the because or not.

But it is always best to get this affirmed by a court. How long it will take depends on your local courts. But you should start proceedings immediately.