I will start out by saying, 11 years ago I left the father of my son while I was pregnant because he was aggressive...this is all in the court papers. I filed for sole custody and he never showed to court on both occasions so I was granted full custody and visitation to my discretion.
The father has really never paid child support that he was ordered too. They finally caught up with him a month or so ago and took him to court just a few days ago.
Now he is engaged to be married to a lady who has 2 kids of her own and he now wants visitation and access of our son. He is almost a stranger to our son.
I have allowed the grand parents to see him regularily over the last 11 years with no problems. The dad has been in and out of jail all of this time. He is extremely dangerous and has been to jail for beating women, even a police officer.
He has been calling my house non-stop and promising the sun and the moon to the boy.
He is going to be serving me papers for visitation stating that he would like the boy every second weekend, summers, every 2nd march break and every 2nd Christmas.

I am really unsure how this is going to pan out. Of course the boy wants to see him, he's offering to buy him new bikes, Xbox's etc. Trying to win his love.

I understand that he should be granted some kind of visitation and I have tried numerous amounts of time to allow him to see him, but he always lets him down. Broken promises.
I have a hard time believing that they will allow what he is asking for considering he has never been a part of his life.
We live 4 hours away, the boy has a paper route Monday thru Saturday. He has friends, this is our life. I have struggled to make ends meet for 11 years while the dad is rolling in cash and living the high life. How can a judge rule against my wishes?

I am just looking for some reassurance I guess here. I would like to know how this is all going to go down in court. Our son just told him that he doesnt want to go every second weekend, and the dad plain out said, those are his legal rights. He has no legal rights!

Help please...