Q: How long do I have to ask my son's father if he will be taking him for his court ordered parenting time?
I was granted full physical and legal custody of my son. We agreed that my son's father would have supervised visits for 2 hours every Friday. The first visit I was supposed to drop him off then he would pick him up from then on. I have contacted him every Friday since to see if I should drop him off for his visit but he has not followed through with a visit yet. Do I need to ask every Friday for the next 16 years or at some point can I go back to life as usual and not block out those 2 hours for a possible visit? Can I request a change in the order if he does not make any type of attempt at sticking to the visitation? How long should I wait?
A: You can and probably should file a motion with the court asking to modify the parenting time order and cite his missed visits. Until a court says otherwise, you have an obligation to make the child available.
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