He wants sole custody but he is on drugs

[Squirtycheese]

I am leaving my partner and my child's dad. He threatened sole custody of him because I am depressed from him being like a child himself and dealing with a baby on my own.
He is addicted to weed along with his family and is depressed himself and won't get a new job because he thinks earning 400 a month will cover raising a child either with me or at his mums.
What's the chance he will get any custody?

You will find 9 times out of 10 that these men threaten this, then never bother with the kid, even with contact, let alone becoming the resident parent.

Don't allow yourself to become emotionally blackmailed into staying, leave, continue to be a good role model, don't get into any emotional exchanges, keep all messages to the point and solely about the child.

Good luck op

None. They always say that. Probably with a follow up threat of not seeing them again if they don’t have full residency or can’t see them whenever they like with no consideration to your plans or wishes.

Carry on with your plans to leave him. If he’s not safe to care for your child on his own because he’s stoned look into supervised contact - not his mum is she’s also a committed stoner.

He’s trying to scare you. Ignore his threats.

Nobody here can say. It will depend on lots of different factors. In the absence of any convincing reason to change the status quo, whoever was the primary carer before the separation will continue to be so.

His weed habit, by itself, won't make much of a difference to anything.

I bet he won't pay for mediation and a CAO.

There's no chance that he'll get sole custody so don't worry about your depression being used to punish you.

Men like him usually can't be bothered to pick up their kids or see them pathetically little like 2 hours a month.

£400 a month won't cover his solicitors fees...

He is all talk. Block him.

£400 per month will barely cover looking after himself. Have you got an income and a home for you and your child? He may get some custody but not likely to to get sole custody no matter what he is threatening.

They all say that. He’ll not even get as far as a solicitor.