Legal Question in Family Law in Tennessee
guadianship
I moved to Nashville to pursue my music career. I left my daughter with my mother. My mother and Brother want me to give guardianship to them. They say the preschool wants them to because it would give them rights to sign papers from school, and if she gets sick. If I do that will I still be the custodial parent. Am I still able to have my daughter live with me when I get settled? And Am I giving any rights to Hanna. Please any advice given, would be greatly appreciated.
2 Answers from Attorneys
Re: guadianship
You are starting down a slippery slope. Your relatives need custody of the child in order to enroll her in the public school system. Once they have custody, you might not get it back. You really need to think long and hard about what you are doing. Guardianships are for adults, but they mean they are your daughter's legal guardian: they have physical and legal custody.
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Re: guadianship
Mr. Guth is right that any agreement you sign to allow relatives to enroll the child in school needs to be carefully drafted, but it can be safely done without any serious concern you will lose custody of your child. You probably will need to get a court to approve what you draft to make it an actual court order, but if you get an attorney who knows what they are doing to draft it you can assure that it will only last for a set period of time or will terminate automatically once specific things happen. Just talk with an attorney who does a good deal of domestic work.
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