If my almost 17 daughter doesn’t want to visit with her father because he has no regular contact with her at all, can I be in trouble for not forcing it?
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If my almost 17 daughter doesn’t want to visit with her father because he has no regular contact with her at all, can I be in trouble for not forcing it?
He only “texts” her when he hasn’t seen her in awhile and tells her she needs to come visit. He never calls her to see how things are going and no involvement with her daily activities. He lives 3 hours away. We live in one stateand he lives in another (where the child custody order is from, not the same town or county) but I do not have (haven’t tried) jurisdiction.
Asked on August 31, 2012 under Family Law, Kansas
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Answered 11 years ago | Contributor
If your daughter who is almost seventeen (17) years of age does not want any visitation with her father despite the requests that you want her to visit him but she does not want to, most likely you will not get in trouble with the court for her refusal to have the visits. In essence, you cannot force your almost adult daughter to do what she does not wish to concerning the matter you have written about.
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