I'm trying to find out how one would go about filing for access rights, or visitation. I contacted an attorney about this matter and it's $1500 retainer and minimum of $5000. This seems far fetched as it would be paying for a "Right" I already have so to speak..
My case...I have a son I've been paying support on regularly for 15 years and not able to see the child. I took a DNA test when my son was a year old and have the results 99.8% mine. When i go to court on support (been twice) the judge won't even hear me on custody, visitation, or access. Most sites are more concerned with charts on payments, and how much the support will be, but nothing on how to get visitation, if you don't have an attorney. Anyone with Google and a computer can navigate to the tables and calculators etc. but finding information and form templates for motions are entirely different. I would like to file or get my parental rights, and some visitation. I would be willing to do supervised, 5 min a week, just get to see my child.
I have much more time that money and would be willing to do the prep work and file the forms if I knew what forms to file. I've read Kansas Civil Procedure, family court rules, but nothing jumps out as to what the steps would be for a person never married to the mother to get access to the child. On one of the Kansas sites there is a domestic relations form, I'm not sure if I can use that, file it with the clerk, serve the mother and go from there. Thanks in advance.