Non Custodial parent is making demands that our child go to therapy for behavioral problems...
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The ex has always caused problems and is making it very difficult to co-parent...excessive non productive communication, always saying there are issues with our child, I'm emotionally damaging the child because I won't let her mother have 50% custody, etc. The ex has always told me that our child needs to go to therapy (primary reason as she has told me that our child would be better off with her instead of me) She has done everything she can to get the child into therapy and I have refused as I don't believe the child needs therapy at the age of 3 (She has normal 3 year old issues) Which she is not having the same issues at my home that she is having at the non custodial's home. Recently she told me she wants to get the child speech therapy but she explains the speech has a lot to do with behavioral problems. I feel that this is just another attempt to get the child into full blown therapy (as the place in question will asses the child to determine needs ) i.e. behavioral, occupational, speech therapy...oh and the child has no speech problems. I feel the non custodial parent is putting me in a position to where she can say I am preventing the child from getting help, but if I do agree to the therapy the child will be in therapy for the rest of her life. Forgot one detail...the non custodial parent told me in the last year that she wanted the child to go to therapy so the therapist could make a determination that the custody arrangement wasnt in the best interest of the child. I have 70% custody, the mother was a drug addict and this has been a constant argument for the last 3 years. The consensus is, is that a girl child is better off with the mom instead of the father (or so I have been told). I guess I'm asking what are my rights as the primary custodial parent? Can I refuse the treatment? I'm afraid this will not stop until the ex has put the child through years of therapy till they can diagnose the child with problems (supposedly caused by me) Please
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Answer:
I agree both parents make decisions together for the best interest of the child. However, we are in disagreement on therapy. The decree doesn't state what should be done in this situation except to say when there is a disagreement the custodial parent has the final say.
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I'm sure that was a great little novella. Custodial parent is with whom the child lives. It does not mean that both parents shouldn't make major decisions together. Follow your judicial decree. Bye.
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