Re: taking the kids out of state

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Paternity is established, and she has full legal, and full
physical, with me only having visitation. But, it also says that
she is to inform me of importation stuff going on in the
children's lives, which she does not. and i think taking them out
of state on vacations, i should know about prior to, not after, in
case of emergency. All i want is to know where they are, and a
phone # in case.

On 7/09/08, sharwinston wrote:
> That is absolutely not true.
> He can not file for custody because he has no standing
> until/when he ever legally establishes his paternal rights to
> the children.
>
> As I said: Since they were never married AND if he has never
> legally established his paternal rights to the children under
> the laws of his state: They are her children and she can take
> her children wherever she wants, whenever she wants and he has
> NO SAY SO whatsoever about it. If he wants a say so, then he
> needs a court order saying he's daddy. Until then, he doesn't
> have any children to seek custody of.
>
> On 7/09/08, Christine wrote:
>> No, it is not legal for her to take the children out of
>> state. He should go immediately to file for custody of the
>> children, before she does. If she does take the children
>> out of state, he can have the police retrieve the children
>> (this just happend to my cousin with his daughter- mom and
>> child are now back in PA).
>> On 5/31/08, amanda wrote:
>>> hi i'm just wondering if anyone has any advice, my brother
>>> is only 23 and his girlfriend is 22 they have four kids
>>> together and after almost seven years they aren't working
>>> out. They are not married and have lived together the
>>> entire time. Now she is talking like shes gonna take the
>>> kids and go to north carolina (we are in PA) can she do
>>> that? or is it illegal?