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My father used to beat me. I haven’t seen him for six years. He has now discovered I’ve had a baby and is threatening to apply for access, which he says will give him the right to have my child for overnight stays at their house. I don’t want my son to have anything to do with them. Will he get this access?

It’s called contact these days, which suggests your father hasn’t seen a solicitor and is just trying to intimidate you. He could certainly apply for a contact order, but the courts are less concerned with the wishes of parents and grandparents than with the welfare of the child in question. Unless he could give very good reasons why such contact would be in the interests of your son it’s unlikely your father would be successful.

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