Question:

Is it legal for my fiancé’s parents and mother in law to deny him his son's phone number and visitation rights? Right now he is not allowed to call his son or to take him out alone. These are the rules of the grandparents, not of the court. There is no court ruling him to be an unfit parent or anything else for that matter. The child just lives with the grandmother in New York while the father is in Maine.

DadsDivorce editor, Rick Ortiz, speaks with Stanley Charles Thorne about how one parent's decision to relocate with a child can wreak havoc in the relationship in the non-custodial parent/child relationship.

What does the Constitution have to say about relocation impacts parental rights? What are some of the loopholes that allow this to happen every day? How can your vigilance help avert the impact of this maneuver? 

Question:

What rights do I have as a father? My daughter was born 3 months ago and now her mother (a one-night affair) will not let me see my child. What can I do?

As part of the ‘national conversation’ on fatherhood that President Obama would like to have, we need to talk about the presumptions of Illinois divorce courts that influence our perceptions of the value of father involvement.  

The de facto minimum parenting schedule used by Illinois courts remains, as it has been for decades, "every other weekend" with a weekly non-overnight "visit” for the non-custodial parent, normally the father.