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)

