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What state are you in?

You definitely need a motion/petition, an affidavit, and attach any other documentation (cps reports maybe) as evidence, make sure to reference them properly.

Just to put things into prospective- this man does not legally owe you anything while you are pregnant. He also will have no legal rights to the child until he is adjudicated the legal father of this child by a court.

>>i was recently released from jail and my son is in
>temporary
>>custody with his great aunt and i need help or information
>on
>>what i can do to get custody.I am in fla and he is in ohio
>and
>>his mother is unfit and i have no money.
>
>
>If you have no money, how are you going to support your son?
>
>That isn't meant to be a negative comment. Rather, it's my
>advice on how to get the situation resolved:
>
>1. Get your life in order. That means a good job, stable home,
>and stay away from criminal activity.
>2. If possible, establish reasonable visitation with your son
>while he is in his aunt's care. You want to begin to establish
>a solid, healthy relationship with both the son and the aunt.
>The more time you spend with him, the less traumatic it will
>be if and when custody does change.
>3. Once you can demonstrate that you can provide a good home
>for the child, then you go to court in the state which gave
>temporary custody to the great aunt and tell them you would
>like for them to terminate the temporary custody order. As
>with any court situation, it is possible to do this pro se
>(without an attorney), but it becomes more complicated and
>there is a greater risk of failure.
>
>Other factors that enter into the matter is whether the great
>aunt is willing to work with you to transfer custody or
>whether she will fight you. Also, even if the mother is
>'unfit', she may well have some say.
>
>If you expect to simply uproot a child from his established
>home to a different state to live with a parent who just got
>out of jail and has no job and no money, I don't think that's
>likely (nor particularly healthy for the child, IMHO).



I totally agree, and will add that things would probably go more smothly for all involved- especially you, if you lived in the child's geographic area

YES YOU ARE WRONG IN TELLING HIM THAT!

a common mistake that parents make is creating the atmosphere or mindset that they and the child are a "team" against the other parent...

this scenario is not good for anyone, please don't do this to your child...

you need to teach your child coping skills without painting the picture that the other parent is to blame, and the children should not be involved at all with court proceedings.....

He is in jail for 6 months for 2 of his 4 children....what does that mean?

have you been trying to use your court ordered parenting time? as in actually showing up at the assigned time and place and trying to retrieve the children?