A single father of a 5 year old child becomes a (legal) male prostitute?

Question

A father of a 5 year old child takes a job as a (legal) prostitute in Nevada. He makes a ton of money doing it and has no problems supporting the kid, although he has to be gone a lot for her "work" and hires a nanny (the father makes over $100,000 year).

The mother wants primary custody. She's a warehouse worker making $20 per hour, and with child support from the father she could provide a stable home life for the child, without being away as much as the fatherhas to be. The mother is willing to allow the father to have reasonable visitation.

The father won't voluntarily give up primary custody (they had agreed to allow the father to have primary custody before he took his new "job" for convenience only). It's up to you, the judge, to decide who should get primary custody. Neither of the two have a proven drug or alcohol problem, there are no allegations of abuse on either side.

Who should get primary custody?

Answer 1

Are you doing a study because you posted the question in reverse in another section.
My answer remains the same whoever has been raising the child should keep the child.

Answer 2

The father had custody of the child in the first place. Why did mom give up the opportunity to claim custody during the initial stages of divorce?

Clearly there was a reason the father had custody. The job is legal and makes enough to provide for the child.

The child doesn't know what daddy's job entails and there is no reason for anyone to advise the child, which is why there is a nanny to look after the child.

If dad had custody and was an attorney or a company CEO with custody the situation would be similar (nanny as care person) and it could still be considered an issue of morality depending on a person's point of view.

Sorry, mom shouldn't have given up custody w/o a good fight.

Answer 3

The mother should get primary custody because she can be with the child more. The father should get liberal visitation. It would be my decision based only on the fact that the father left the child with a nanny so much. I don't care what either parent does for a living as they both are holding legal jobs.

In real life I believe that the father will not keep up with his visitation schedule due to the fact that he left the child with the nanny so much.

In real life there is also more to this case but what is stated above is basically all the judge hears.

Answer 4

The father's new job is not a mitigating factor if the child and father currently reside in Nevada where his job is legal. Only in another state is his professional decision valid consideration for the change in custody. Did the mother sign anything or is she denying that she had agreed to the father taking primary custody before hand?

Is the Nanny considered child abandonment by the state in question?

If not, the father has done nothing to warrant a change in the relationship.

Answer 5

Well, I'm sure the mother is a better role model for the child than the father ever will be. If neither of them is a good role model, maybe the nanny or grandparents should have custody. A child should never be raised by a prostitute/stripper/escort. What are we trying to teach this child? The child should go to a moral family. Even a single moral guardian is better than an immoral one. Also, it doesn't matter how much money a parent makes if one of them is such a bad role model. It would better for the child to live in poverty than to live with the father.

Answer 6

Oh-poo that's a Tiffy.... Even though the father is capable of providing a stable home but with mostly strangers ...since I believe you stated he is a way much of the time. I would feel uncomfortable giving him primary custody... and here's the reason why. It would be the element and types of characters these children could be most likely exposed too. His life style smacks of drug use and abuse use. I'm sure is quite capable but just not as a primary care giver..... I think in a case like this children should go to mother who seems a bit more rooted and can give them her love not that of a stranger. She seems to have the most to offer in my opion....Money and a fine home isn't enough for a child....They need structure,security and Lots of Love. Seems to me If I were the father I'd rather work 3 jobs scrubing toliets if that's what it take to keep-em grounded and around me.... Job choice a lone would keep me from voting custody to him...Not sure, sfae busisness he is invovled in

Answer 7

I think someone should ask the 5 year old. After all this is a person that we are talking about not a piece of furniture. So the father has a job that involves something that everyone likes to look at male or female. We all like to look at them stripping. If he is a good father and his job in no way hurts her then that does not make him a bad parent. Just the same as her mother working at a warehouse, some may consider this inappropriate for a woman it makes no difference as long as she is a good mom. So by asking the 5 year old you are giving this little person a chance to express his/her feelings about where he/she wants to be. And don't be fooled that a 5 year old doesn't know what they want, they are smarter than you think and sometimes see more than you think.

Answer 8

If the father has a legal job in the state and was given voluntary custody by the mother then the mother could request custody but it is very unlike. The state allows people to work as what the view as legal regardless of what it is. If someone sees it as a moral issue then that is something that would not be allowed in court. The courts deal with legal issues not moral issues. If the state views his job as legal and does not harm or interfere with his childreering skills then they will not take custody away because someone may not agree with it morally.

Answer 9

In todays society it is prominent that we raise our children with some kind of self respect now I'm not stating that the father lives a disgusting life because to each its own but do to the job that he is working his child is not going to be 5 forever and there is going to be a time where the child wants to know what daddy does for a living so my solution for this problem would be to let mom have primary custody of child do to fathers lifestyle and I'm quite sure that mom does not need that much child support she makes $20/hr

Answer 10

If his job is legal in that state, then no judge will see anything wrong in his job. If the child is a boy, then his father is good for the child as long as the job is not a hindrance to the kid. His job can't last that long. Why do the father have custody of your kid anyway?