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    Default How Will Marriage to a Convicted Felon With a No-Contact Order Affect Visitation

    My question involves a child custody case from the State of Texas.

    I want to marry a man with a very lengthy criminal record (record includes assaults, robbery, weapons, drugs) and I want to know how this could impact my visitation arrangement with my child.

    There is a no contact order between my fiancé and my child and this order is being followed and will continue to be followed in the event of marriage. This means when I have my child, my fiancé stays somewhere else until visitation is over. Nothing happened between my child and fiancé to cause this order to be put in place, the child of my father demanded it be so over the criminal history. There are no plans to fight this order, it just is and we work our lives around it to comply.

    I do not want to lose any time I have with my child and I currently have more time than the standard arrangement, but less time than 50/50. If there is any chance that marriage would present any kind of a risk to my custody agreement then it will have to wait till my child is a legal adult.

    My first question is can a marriage such as this under these circumstances abiding by these orders have any kind of potential to create grounds for the father of my child to take me back to court to make changes to the current arrangement?

    My second question is how could this marriage possibly effect my chances of having custody in the future if the opportunity should present itself? (the father collects the child support from me but I now have to make my own child care arrangements before and after school due to his refusal to do so, I handle the dentist visits, I usually handle the annual doctors visits, I do sick days during his scheduled time sometimes, he missed his Father's Day pick up, etc)

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    Default Re: How Will Marriage to a Convicted Felon With a No-Contact Order Affect Visitation

    Are you willing to keep your new husband elsewhere when you have parenting time?

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    Default Re: How Will Marriage to a Convicted Felon With a No-Contact Order Affect Visitation

    Your fiance is going to get weary of staying elsewhere whenever you have kiddo. So, who will then come first? You need to ask yourself that before you say "I do" with Prince Charming.

    Hopefully he's put his errant ways behind him but you may find out the hard way that most people with a lengthy, violent record don't change much except to get what they want- and then, it's only temporary.

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    Default Re: How Will Marriage to a Convicted Felon With a No-Contact Order Affect Visitation

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    Are you willing to keep your new husband elsewhere when you have parenting time?
    Yes. But I'm not "keeping" him anywhere. He is a human being, not a pet.

    No one will be violating the no contact order.

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    Yes. But I'm not "keeping" him anywhere. He is a human being, not a pet.

    No one will be violating the no contact order.
    You seem to have a misplaced sense of outrage. You're about to marry a felon - expect Dad to immediately file to have your visitation reduced, made supervised, and with no overnights.

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    Default Re: How Will Marriage to a Convicted Felon With a No-Contact Order Affect Visitation

    You won't have as much time with your child once you marry. Unless possibley he has another residence for when you have the child. And even then I doubt a court would remove the no contact order. And like geek said your husband is going to get feed up with having to leave his home every time you have your child. If he says he doesn't mind now, that will change once you're married. Which is more important to you, spending time with your child or being with this man?

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    Default Re: How Will Marriage to a Convicted Felon With a No-Contact Order Affect Visitation

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    You seem to have a misplaced sense of outrage. You're about to marry a felon - expect Dad to immediately file to have your visitation reduced, made supervised, and with no overnights.
    Someone certainly has a misplaced sense of outrage...it's not me though dude.

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    Someone certainly has a misplaced sense of outrage...it's not me though dude.
    I'd rather have a misplaced sense of outrage than a misplaced sense of responsibility, but then again it's not my child to lose.

    Dude.

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    Someone certainly has a misplaced sense of outrage...it's not me though dude.
    Oh, fear not. You'll be back whining about how Mean Ole' Dad got a court order saying you must be supervised and your darling felon ain't allowed near the child. Ever.

    We'll wait.


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    Default Re: How Will Marriage to a Convicted Felon With a No-Contact Order Affect Visitation

    SMH

    As was pointed out, repeat violent offenders rarely, if ever change their ways. Not saying it can't be done, but it takes a helluva lot of will power and in most cases, they end up reoffending.

    But if that's your choice for a mate, expect your ex to file for and get supervised visits when you exercise parenting time.

    Why would you risk losing time with your kids for someone who has repeatedly demonstrated an unwillingness and inability to live a decent life? Your BF not only has a felony record, but was convicted of committing violent felonies. I'm genuinely curious.

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