Q: I have a 9 year old son, and his father wants court for custody and upset that I put him in child support.
my son has been in my husband and my care for 9 years as he is 9 and will be 10 in 2 months. I decided to put the father on child supp as I feel we make an agreement the biological father can not keep when i ask for help or to get him home for school the next day. I been keeping my son home with me since the last few problems I've had with the father. I keep him away from his father since I was told he hangs with drug addicts at his home at that his girlfriend at that time confirmed he was also doing drugs. Can I lose custody of my son to the father by not letting him see him for those reasons? This has been back and forth since my son was born. I cant get the father to keep agreements on things with our son so I thought the first step was to do child support, but now the father is mad for me doing that and wants to go to court for custody? I'm a stay at home mom while my Husband is a full time worker. Also.my son told me that his father would tell him things about me thats not true.
A:
It sounds like you may need a divorce and custody judgment. Hire a divonce lawyer.
If you give him visitation before you get a custody judgment, he doesn't have to return him.
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