I have one son to my first husband (we separated when my son was 18 months) whom I have 90% custody for. I also have a daughter with my second husband we have been together for almost 8 years (since my son was 2) Unfortunately our relationship has come to an end and we need to work out the children.
My second husband is also considered the father of my son and we would like him included in the custody agreement along with our daughter so they can continue to visit dad/step dad together. However it becomes tricky, i receive very generous child support from husband number 1 for our son and he has consent orders for visiting.
My point is can a step father have a parenting agreement? For visiting purposes?? How does that work for child support that I get from his biological father, it would be wrong to receive it if our son is hypothetically spending weekends with his step father.
Has anyone been in this situation?? It would be very detrimental to our sons health for him to not spend considerable time with his step father as he is also considered his father. Do we need the biologically fathers permission???
Just wanted to add the step father and I are in a good place but he has mentioned he is willing to go to court to get time with the step son.
Has anyone been in this situation before???
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Yes step son can be included in parenting orders with step dad. You would need to be prepared to organise it so it doesn't intrude on bio-dads time. I don't think permission needs to be sought, just like you wouldn't seek permission to send your kids to grandmas for a sleep over.
Step dad needs to be a bit more flexible etc with days as it needs to fit with everyone. A male friend of mine regularly has his step kids.
I don't know how child support would work.