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Witholding visitation ok?

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What is the name of your state? Utah

Ok, I am paranoid. My attorney says that I can do two things regarding custody of my 5 year old which I have sole custody of. My ex lives in Alaska and up till now has not requested any visitation with his son. Now he wants visitation. I don't feel comfortable giving him visitation. He is an alcoholic, abusive verbally and physically, and had tried to commit suicide 3 times 2 years ago and was in a psychiatric hospictal and treatment facility after that. I know how he was around my other children from a previous marraige and I do not want to subject my son to his alcoholic & irrational behavior. I can either simply not responsd to his request for visitation and let him take me to court and show cause or I can spend the money myself and have visitation changed. What I want is supervised visitation but I don't have the money to open it up and start the process. I want to do what is best for my son and don't want to somehow forfeit custody of my son. Anyone know what I should do to keep my son safe and with me? The attorney says if I do nothing and I am taken to court, I just have to show the court why I did this and of course it's just a matter of the court getting my ex's medical records.
 


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I just don't want to do anything to jeapordize my sole custody. My ex has a long abusive history and has threatened to kill me and has held a gun to me and my son. I guess I am just worried what he might do. He still sends me threatening emails and is very manipulative. So anything I do, he will twist around to his benefit or just threaten me till I give in :( I am tired of him running and ruining my life. I just want to keep my son safe and happy and I am very much afraid of doing the wrong thing.
 
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Please keep everything together. THis very well can be added to the current thread you have. It's helpful to everyone involved as they won't have to "thread hop."

Please copy and paste all of this into your other thread and close this one.
 
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