A 78-year-old businessman from Vigo, who had a baby two years ago after a non-marital relationship, has asked the Vigo Court to change the visitation regime for his daughter. The man, according to La Voz de Galicia, seeks to care for the minor only once a week and without staying overnight, being notified of the day in question 24 hours in advance.
The father alleged that the two-year-old girl still wears diapers and is better cared for by her 41-year-old mother, given that he suffers from alleged health problems that make it difficult for him to parent the little girl. For this reason, he claims to have the girl only one afternoon a week.
However, the Sixth Section of the Pontevedra Court, based in Vigo, in a ruling of February 5, does not see serious difficulties for the parent to be able to adequately care for his daughter.
They have reminded him that these “health problems” date back to a fibrillation more than 13 years ago, and the cervical and lumbar pain, to a decade ago, so possibly it no longer affects him in his current daily life.
They also add that the parent’s age has not affected his ability to take care of his home or his person, and that he does not have financial difficulty in paying a professional to help him, since he sets himself a salary of 3,000 euros of the company he manages.
“It does not seem that she would have any greater difficulty in carrying out the care, feeding and cleaning that her youngest daughter requires, even if she was two years old and still required the use of diapers,” the court states.
Apparently, the fact that the father was almost twice the age of the mother of their daughter together was not taken into account for the custody or cohabitation regime.
This man claims that he already has another minor daughter for whom he pays a pension of 1,200 euros and that now he will have to pay double. Furthermore, he maintains that the two-year-old’s mother hides her true economic situation.
According to what she says, this woman inherited assets, deposits and accounts in Eastern Europe – where she is from – that she has not revealed in the trial. She has also highlighted that, when there is any extraordinary expense in relation to the daughter, he must assume 70% of the amount and she must assume the remaining 30%.