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Visitation change - Overseas Assignment - help
08/26/08 03:39 AM
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I am the CP of a 5-yr old special needs child (autism - I have full physical custody, 50-50 legal). Ex is Army Captain, just returned from 1 yr in Iraq, now assigned 3 years in Germany. He's had little involvement in the care, raising, and unique special needs of our child. He remarried while on 3-week leave from Iraq. I have three issues I need help with ASAP:
1. Ex wants our child to fly to Germany for 2 weeks at Christmas and 12 weeks in the summer. I am willing to negotiate visitation, but feel that his proposal does not take the best interest of our child into consideration - especially his age and his special needs. I am proposing that Christmas visitation should occur in the states (closer to home to avoid disruption to schedule); and summer should not exceed 4 weeks away from home. Ex won't even consider it. What is reasonable visitation in this situation?
2. Ex's wife has spent 2 weeks of her life with our child, and now feels she is an expert on his care and upbringing. My ex will not even meet with me to discuss the change in visitation unless she is there. He has delegated the care and discipline of our child to her during his visitation. She is domineering and has been calling my child's teacher, and showing up to parent meetings demanding that she be included on all school and doctor forms. As far as I can tell, she has no legal rights in deciding the custody and visitation of our child. Do I have a legal basis to tell her to back off?
3. Ex leaves in 1 week (has been back for 2). If we cannot reach a visitation agreement, is our next step mediation? Can that be done with him remotely?
Current parenting agreement states that we will address a change in visitation when ex is assigned to a base stateside.
Thanks for any insight you can offer.
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