Custody battle in the age of Covid
My sister and her ex have been fighting over custody of my niece since they separated earlier this year. I won't say what I think about him. I'll just leave it as, mom always said when you have nothing nice to say then zip it. In any event, my sister allowed him to take my niece for the weekend. I face timed my niece today, and to my horror he had taken her to a football game with his new family and none of them were wearing masks. My niece has asthma.
I immediately called my sister after I got off the phone with my niece to let her know
and she tells me that its something that they have been fighting about, how he parents now that they are no longer together.
IMO, this should be non negotiable. He's already told me I am not her parent so I don't get a say so. It won't stop me from telling him how irresponsible he is when I see him though. Its bad enough he took her out to a crowded place, but even worse to not put a mask on her, and even worse to tell her she didn't need a mask because she was outdoors. When I asked her, where's your mask, that's exactly what she said, I don't need one, I'm outside. Ridiculous! They were surrounded by a lot of other people and they sure as hell were not 6 feet apart. My niece knows better, she reminds me we need to put our masks on when she's with me. I was really annoyed that her father was feeding her disinformation.
Here is a recent article on this issue
Melanie Joseph wants to see her son, but a judge won’t let her — for no reason except that she won’t wear a mask.
Joseph’s 14-year-old son has asthma, a condition that could put him at risk of contracting COVID-19 during this pandemic, court filings show.
Broward Circuit Judge Dale Cohen called the mother an “anti-mask person” who had the “audacity” to brag about it on Facebook.
Conservatives take issue with the decision, but it illustrates how judges in family court now must consider the health risks of COVID-19 on top of juggling the interests of feuding ex-spouses, single parents and reluctant child-support payers.
COVID first made family law news in South Florida early in the pandemic, when an emergency room doctor treating coronavirus patients was stripped of custody of her 4-year-old daughter.
An appeals court quickly overturned the decision, and the child’s estranged parents eventually resolved their custody disagreement.
][link:https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/fl-ne-covid-family-court-order-20201001-dt65cwe3nrex5ltjwnjkh3ggqu-story.html|
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