Custody
Having Your Children Around Your Significant OtherIf you are still married, i.e., the Court has not entered a Divorce decree, you may not have your children in the presence of your "significant other," mainly because you are still married and in Tennessee, at least, that is considered in poor taste and just plain tacky at best and immoral at worst. After all, you are committing adultery. Importantly all this applies if you are separated, even under a Court Ordered Separation, but still married. After the Divorce you may have the children around your "significant other" all you want except under "inappropriate circumstances." That means different things in different places, but generally anything of a sexual nature or sleeping in the same bed while the children are in the house is not permitted. You will need to have separate sleeping arrangements when you have the children. If you don't follow this voluntarily, the Judge will issue a Restraining Order and make you pay the costs for having had to do it. Children will be removed from a custodial parent for violating the above and will suspend visitation if you continue after a Restraining Order has been issued. Strangely enough they don't hold it against the Custodial Parent if she stops living with her lover or marries the idiot. |
