HELP!!!
Hi! I'm new to this site and to being a step parent and I really need some help! I have a question. Hoping someone is familiar with the laws. So this coming weekend is our scheduled weekend to have my step kids. My husband will be at a required school for work for the next two weeks. He will be gone during the day day but home in the evening. So the kids would be with me during the day. Their mom is saying she isn't going to give us the kids if they will be alone with me. Isn't there some law that protects us from that? Isn't she required to give him the kids during his scheduled time and it's his choice on who he leaves the kids with?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks in advance!
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Does he have ROFR (Right of
Does he have ROFR (Right of First Refusal) in his CO? If he does, she is within her rights. If not, I still agree with her. You are not the parent, she is and he is. It is their responsibility to take care of the kid. Not yours.
Also, just some advice from a SM, this is not a precedent that you want to set with your DH. If you start taking care of them when he is not around, when they become a pain in your ass, he will still expect you to. Take some advice from those of us doing this longer, and let the BM have her kids, when he is not home to care for them.
I do understand what you all
I do understand what you all are saying. Switching would be a great option except that their mother is completely OCD and feels the need to schedule out a minimum of 3 months in advance and anytime we've tried to switch it's been a huge ordeal!! No she does not have ROFR. The problem is she is trying to make it look like he doesn't care about or make time for his kids and she is trying to keep me out of EVERY aspect of their lives which is just not acceptable!