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Relationship breakdown/dads rights

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Foxpaws91 · 12/10/2019 10:43

my partner and I live in a small village and we have a 14 week old baby, I have suggested moving back to a larger town where we both come from so our son can be close to his family (grandmother/half sister and brother etc) but my partner just kicked off and told me to get out and go before he comes back but that he will have our baby every weekend and will do everything to make sure of it, can he do this? I breastfeed out child for a start, he is not trustworthy too (he thinks it's fine to sleep on the sofa with him and in bed, he smokes, he thinks it's ok to make him taste food when I don't want him to and I think, not entirely sure, that he is taking drugs, and he gets angry when our baby cried alot) I honestly could not sleep if I had to give him up for the weekend. He also doesn't drive and has said he will make me drive the 60 miles to drop him off and pick him up. If it went to court what would his rights be? I don't want to stop him seeing him but just not unsupervised.

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BillHadersNewWife · 12/10/2019 10:53

No he can't.

Even if you didn't breastfeed it's very hard for Fathers to get overnights agreed in court when babies are so young. Babies need to be with the primary carer.

A LOT of men like this are full of hot air about what they will "do" to ensure they get their "rights"

In reality, they usually turn out to be completely hands-off or very unreliable.

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