Supervised Visitation Question

[spangle1033]

Soc!  Hope you're doing well.

You probably won't be happy with my lack of information, but I really need your point of view.

The case has to do with my sister-in-law and her son.

All parties in GA.

SIL is currently going through a divorce.  At this point, the divorce is not final.

At the hearing for custody, the Judge gave temporary full custody to her husband and ordered that SIL would have supervised visitation EOW (from Friday at 6 PM to Sunday at 6 PM) once she completed a 12 week re-hab program.  At that court date, SIL's grandmother volunteered to be the supervisor for the visitation.

Once SIL completed re-hab, she had one supervised weekend visitation with her son before her grandmother stated that she "couldn't take the pressure" and said she would no longer supervise visitation.

My husband's father called and asked my husband if he could supervise the visitation for "a few times" while SIL's lawyer worked to get her unsupervised visitation.  Husband talked it over with me and we decided it was fine, if only for a few times.

We later found out that my husband was the only one okayed by SIL's soon-to-be-ex husband and his lawyer.  The rest of SIL's family was deemed unacceptable.  By whom, I don't know.  The Judge?  The Lawyers?

We have held the supervised visitation, at this point, three times.  However, the visitation takes place during the weekends that my stepdaughters visit and it has been hectic, to say the least.

When we question SIL and her father as to when the supervision will be changed to non-supervised, etc., we get the run-around.  One minute they say the final custody hearing will be in 2 months...and at another time they say it will be held in a year.  We were told a Guardian ad Litem was being brought in, but have yet to see anyone.  They say the lawyers are working to make the visitation unsupervised or that SIL's lawyer is working to get SIL's father to be the supervisor.....but we see no results.

We basically want to get the supervision out of our house.  It may sound harsh, but it's a madhouse when everyone is there and we have no "real" time with DH's children.

So here come the MANY questions!

1.  What is the average length of time between the temporary custody hearing and the final custody hearing?

2.  How difficult would it be to make SIL's father the supervisor?  He was primarily deemed unfit because he lived with SIL's mother, who was deemed unfit.  But if SIL got a residence (right now she's living with her parents), could he supervise in her home?

3.  Is weekend supervised visitation normal?  I only ask because there's no supervising while everyone is asleep and I've never heard of it before now.

4.  How is a Guardian ad Litem placed on a case?  Who requests it?

5.  As the supervisor, can my husband contact SIL's lawyer to ask questions concerning supervision.

6.  Can our BM (DH's ex) make a case to suspend our visitation with DH's daughters due to the fact that SIL (recently completed re-hab) is in our home during the DSD's visitation?  This isn't really an issue, but I'd like to be prepared.

Any additional advice would be appreciated!

Thanks SOC!

[socrateaser]

...Section 10.

[spangle1033]

Soc, would you be alluding to #10?  If so, I'm sorry.  I thought we would be considered the parties since my questions concerned the visitation in our home and since my questions concerned only that visitation (not the eventual custody side, etc).  Sorry, I have just gotten such wonderful advice here in the past and I don't want you to think that I was purposely ignoring the regulations.  Thanks for your time regardless.

[socrateaser]

>Soc, would you be alluding to #10?  If so, I'm sorry.  I
>thought we would be considered the parties since my questions
>concerned the visitation in our home and since my questions
>concerned only that visitation (not the eventual custody side,
>etc).  Sorry, I have just gotten such wonderful advice here in
>the past and I don't want you to think that I was purposely
>ignoring the regulations.  Thanks for your time regardless.

It's not clear to me who the parties are. You first state that you want to get visitation out of the grandmother's house, but I don't know who the grandmother is. Then you ask questions that have nothing to do with getting the visitation relocated.

If you are the supervising party for the purpose of visitation, and you don't want to act as supervisor any longer, and you are not court ordered to supervise, then just stop supervising -- plain and simple.

If you are actually court ordered to supervise, then you'll need to file a motion with the court to be relieved of the responsibility.

I can't answer any of the other questions unless you are a party to the case -- even court ordered supervisor will do. Until I know the answer to this question, I can't comment further.