:confused: :mad: I live in Pa. I have full custody of my 6 yr. old daughter and her father has partial. He sees her about 2 times a month. about 1 month ago I took her to his house and she started crying that she didn't want to stay, so I took her back home with me. She has never done that before. Now all of a sudden she doesn't want to go down any more. She cries so bad when I even mention it. She hasn't seen him since father's day. She said nothing happened she just doesn't want to go down there anymore. Because he has partial custody I am afraid that I will get in trouble if I don't send her down, but I don't want to make her go somewhere she doesn't want to be. Do I have to make her go?

I would try asking her again why she doesn't want to go. Maybe take her to a child psycologist and or even to her regular Dr. Tell him in confidence before you take your daughter in how she started crying and doesn't want to go to her Dad's. Have him do a thorough exam and do not by any means give your daughter any ideas. Just let the experts do their thing and see what comes out. Good luck.

First, I think you need to talk to the father and the kid to find out what it is about his place that is making her not want to go. Is it junky? Is he not nice and unable to talk to the kid? There has to be a reason. Try to work something out. If it is not working, go back to the court and suggest that supervised visitation occur with the father coming to your location and visiting the child under your supervision or that of a DCF worker or a mutually agreed upon party. It may be that the child needs to be around a safe person since this man is a stranger. And you may want to ask the court to make visitation supervised immediately because it clearly appears to be in the child's best interest since she will not voluntarily go there. There are sufficient grounds for modification.