Q: How long do I have to wait for a parent pickup for parenting time
My son has every other weekend and Wednesday’s for 3 hours with his dad and his dad has not picked him up one weekend and picked him up on day 2 the next weekend. Can he just pick him up whenever he wants or is there a time limit to him losing his weekend?
A:
You should contact the Friend of the Court in your county, or a local family law attorney who practices regularly in those courts to determine what the local standard is. In a lot of places, 30 minutes is considered a reasonable amount of time to wait around; anything more and you can safely assume they are not coming (unless of course they call or text you of their ETA).
I would say this being a consistent problem, you may need to contact the FOC anyway.
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