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If he's asking for visitation, the termination will likely not happen.

The court will give, as a general rule, give a parent at least one chance to actually be a parent should they request it. Your daughter needs to expect that he'll be awarded at least some sort of visitation, and she can request that it's gradual and supervised at first. Eventually it will generally lead to a regular visitation schedule including overnights, weekends and entire weeks in the summer.

How old is your daughter, and is there a support order in place?

(I am not a citizen, incidentally - but I'm legal. That aside, if his status wasn't an issue for your daughter at the time it's not likely to be an issue now)

My daughter is 25. And no his legal status was not an issue for her, but Im guessing should be as far as the law goes considering he is not employed, and unable to provide any monetary support. Also, he lives with his parents and siblings and their home has become the hang out for the local all of their homies. One brother is a known affiliate with a gang, and the other sells dope!not exactly where or who I would like for my grand daughter to acociated with.

And am I (we) able to hold out on visitation because he has never supported his daughter. There has not been an order issued as of yet. This all came about because my daughter had been receiving aid. So our county had been looking for him, and when they found him, he claimed the child wasn't his. This led to a DNA test, which the results proved to his child. With the results, we wanted to file for Termination, and did. Before we were able to serve him we were served with visitation mediation. But the mediation and hearing are scheduled before the termination hearing!?

I'm so confused!