Welcome to You Be The Judge. Today’s question comes from Bend: Mother and children have a restraining order against Dad. A restraining order provides that Dad shall have supervised parenting time with the children. Dad and the supervisor, apparently, are talking about placing a tracking device on the kids. What can be done?

My name is Steven Leskin. I am a divorce and family law attorney in Portland. We Post new content every Monday, Wednesday, Friday at about 10 o’clock. If you like what you see here, you can like, subscribe, or comment below. You can find me at www.leskinlaw.com.

So you’re the judge: What do you think? Mom and kids have a restraining order against Dad. Dad wants to place a tracker on the kids. What can they do?

The first question is whether or not the parenting supervisor is a professional or a friend of Dad. If it’s a friend of Dad, the Mom can go back to court and ask that the judge modify the restraining order to require a professional supervisor. I would also argue that actually placing a tracker on the kids would violate the restraining order because it’s still a contact with the kids and the restraining order prevents that.

So again, my name is Steven Leskin. I am a divorce and family law attorney you can find me at www.leskinlaw.com.

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