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    Default Filing for Full Custody Based on Abandonment by a Parent

    My question involves a child custody case from the State of: Colorado
    So my fiance wants to obtain full custody of his daughter because her mother has not been seen or heard from in over 6 months (according to us). We suspect she is using heavy drugs again and don't want her anywhere near the child for this reason. Her grandparents (on her mothers side) may have been secretly letting the daughter see the mother for an unknown span of time. Will this effect a case? Can the grandparents plea for there daughter and would the possible visitations lead to him losing? Should we just go the custody case route even though we have no way of contacting the mother? We are worried her grandparents might try to take custody for their daughter(the mother) and we are just not sure where to begin. If a child abandonment is what we should do where do we start?

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    Default Re: How to File for Child Abandonment and What is the Right Case Option

    Dad should speak with a local attorney.

    We don't know the current order status, we don't know if the grandparents may have contact or not, we don't know the age of the child, we don't know how much access Dad has.

    And worse, Dad doesn't know whether or not Mom has actually been gone or not.

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    Default Re: How to File for Child Abandonment and What is the Right Case Option

    OP, realize that you are legally no one in this situation. Not at all.

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    Default Re: Filing for Full Custody Based on Abandonment by a Parent

    Quote Quoting roxas162
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    My question involves a child custody case from the State of: Colorado
    So my fiance wants to obtain full custody of his daughter because her mother has not been seen or heard from in over 6 months (according to us). We suspect she is using heavy drugs again and don't want her anywhere near the child for this reason. Her grandparents (on her mothers side) may have been secretly letting the daughter see the mother for an unknown span of time. Will this effect a case? Can the grandparents plea for there daughter and would the possible visitations lead to him losing? Should we just go the custody case route even though we have no way of contacting the mother? We are worried her grandparents might try to take custody for their daughter(the mother) and we are just not sure where to begin. If a child abandonment is what we should do where do we start?
    Some food for thought:

    Courts almost never deny any visitation at all to a parent. What they do is make the visitation supervised. Grandparents are often assigned to be the supervisors.

    Therefore its quite possible that any action dad takes may result in the maternal grandparents officially supervising their daughter's visitation.

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