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    Default Pregnant Wife Left Whats Fathers Rights

    My question involves a child custody case from the State of: PA

    Horrible situation! My brother in law was just married June 2010. He is expecting his first child, a girl in April. About a month ago she told him that she no longer loved him and moved out. She is diagnosed with Bipolar and Depression.

    Since then she has changed her phone number so he has no way of contacting her. He desperatly wants to know how the baby is developing and that she is healthy.

    He also of coarse wants to be at the hospital when the baby is born. We know that she states who can and can not be in the delivery room. However he just wants to be notified and at the hospital when she is in labor.

    Does he have any rights as to know the well being of his unborn child? Also does he have any rights to know when she goes into labor so he can be at the hospital?

    If he does then I guess the next step is to get an attorney involved. If not then I guess there is nothing he can do until after the baby is born and should'nt spend his money until then. I hope that is not the case.

    Here is a father who wanted to be there for his child from the start and has been completly robbed of that!Fathers need MORE rights in cases such as this.

    My heart just broke to hear him crying that he is missing the opportuntiy to feel his baby move in her belly and to be there when she comes into this world.

    It also does not help that his brother and I just had our first child. He was so looking forward to experiencing what his brother had. It is hard to believe how many peoples lives can be effected over one persons decision. She has hurt our family very much!

    Thank you for taking the time to read this. May God Bless You and Yours!

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    Default Re: Pregnant Wife Left Whats Fathers Rights

    Fathers have rights at both ends of a pregnency; they have the right to determine whom they have the child with, and once the child is born, married fathers automatically enjoy exact equal rights regarding the child as the mother - until and unless a court orders otherwise. Unfortunately he has ZERO rights to anything regarding the mother or the pregnancy until the actual moment the child is born. Until the birth, there is no legal child to have rights ABOUT.

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    Default Re: Pregnant Wife Left Whats Fathers Rights

    Thank you. I was afraid of that and it is rather saddening. As for the exact equal rights when the child is born, I guess he will have to get a lawyer and track her down. I wonder if he can get the process going prior to his little girl being born. Gosh now that I think of it that way, we won't even know when she has her. Ugh, rather sickening. Well thank you again and take care!

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