Q: Grandparents alienating situation
Father & I never married. Both live in KY. He lives over 2 hours away (over 100 miles) & 1 hour ahead. Grandparents live in different state. My daughter is not even 2 and he is asking for full or 50/50 custody. Grandparents have encouraged, influenced father to ask for this and to get him out of paying child support. He works 3 jobs, has no family living in the same state as us, he's not married and has no other children. Can I ask that his parents be excluded from court for trying to alienate the parental agreement. They've been a problem since beginning. We signed parental agreement in early 2017 with lawyers. Both agreeing. Now he's saying that agreement is unfair and one sided before he even started overnight visits with daughter. I believe it's truly his parents who want more custody not father. He wants out of paying child support and wants out of having to drive to pick her up. Help.
A: You can’t really bar the grandparents from communicating with the son but you can show they are manipulating him to pursue custody for their agenda, not his. Custody visitation and child support are always modifiable so you need to be able to show that equal time is NOT in the best interests of the child.
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