I don't know enough about the history of this case to have any opinion of the mother's fitness as a parent. For the sake of argument, if the mother is unfit and the father is absent, perhaps the best interest of the child would be for one set of her grandparents to have custody. Or perhaps the right place for her is with the step-mother.Jumping Frog wrote:True. The step-mother is. But with all due respect, the mother already lost her parental rights when child protective services removed the child from the mother's custody. That is how the father was awarded permanent custody to start with. So it is hard for me to see how the child's best interests are served by being given back to that same unfit mother.tbrown wrote:With all due respect, if he's not home he's not the one raising his daughter.
I don't see anything wrong with the courts re-examining custody if the home life situation has changed. Obviously it's absurd to expect a submariner to attend a hearing in person while deployed, but that's a separate issue from whether a custody hearing is a good idea.