Q: Can my sister get custody of my child because I keep going back to a man who physical abused me?
I stay with my sister form time to time when I leave my abusive boyfriend and my little 10 year old girl lived with my sister but I am the one who placed my daughter in her care no legal forms. I talk to my daughter she spends the night with me weeks at a time I provid food, I go see her as much as possible. But now I'm back with my boyfriend and she's treating to take her from me. And my little girl told me she will not live with me and my boyfriend. I've raised two boys in which one is 19 and graduated high school and the other boy of mine is 17 and he graduates this year. My little girl is in the gifted classes and a straight A student has been the whole time she live with me. But I don't have soul custody or joint custody of her nether does her father or my sister.
A: If you can't stop going back to an abusive "boyfriend" the state of Alabama may well decide that you lack the capacity to protect your child. You better choose, and right now, who is more important to you. You are at risk to lose custody of the youngest child.
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