When is it alright for my “ex” to introduce her new signifcant other to my 20 month-old daughter?
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When is it alright for my “ex” to introduce her new signifcant other to my 20 month-old daughter?
I was just informed that my ex will be going away with my daughter this weekend with her significant other and I think this is going to be very troubling for my daughter at this early stage. I was hoping that my ex would wait several (6-12) months with a new person before letting him enter my daughter’s life, but that seems to not be the case.
Asked on August 5, 2011 Washington
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 12 years ago | Contributor
If your divorce decree or agreement provides that a either this specific significant other, or any significant other, may not have certain interaction with your daughter, either generally or under certain circumstances, that decree or agreement may be enforced.
If the above is not the case, then IF you believe--and more importantly, can show--that either this person in particular or the way your ex intends to interact with significant others will cause emotional or pschological harm to your child--or even put her at some physical harm, then you may be able to go to court to get an order barring it. Be advised that this is a very high bar to get over: typically, you need something like inappropriate behavior (causual nudity), criminal behavior, mental illness, drug use, etc. to show this. That you and your ex are divorced and that he will have new people in his life is a fact of your daughter's life; as long as those people behavior in a reasonable fashion, it is very unlikely that a court would take any cognizane of it.
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