My fiance(24) who has autism can’t see me(25) for the foreseeable future because her guardian doesn’t like me or what I do
Location: Arizona, Maricopa County
People involved:
Ward: My fiancé
Guardians: fiancé parents(mom & dad)
Me
Additional info:
\- The ward lives in her own apartment under her own lease and is in a program called DDD
\- The ward has a 24/7 staff at the moment that assists her if she needs any help throughout the day but she rarely needs them except for very specific tasks
\- Guardianship type is General Guardianship
Hello, I really need help as soon as possible. My fiancé’s guardian(her dad) is currently restricting contact between her and I because I got her a gift of a new phone and a tablet for her college classes coming up. He said he won’t let me see her unless I take back the gifts. I really don’t see these as a problem since she had a phone already and has no restrictions using it. She also had access to a Mac with no restrictions so I thought an IPad for her art school also wouldn’t be a problem. I also covered all cost so she or the guardians don’t have to pay anything.
Currently her and I are stressed because we are looking to take action as it’s not fair they are isolating her over this incident. This is causing her a lot of stress since we are used to seeing each other everyday. We are planning on going to the court to file a petition for contact
This isn’t the only incident where our relationship was leveraged because the dad didn’t like something. Other disputes involved
\-the discussion of marriage(the dad thinks I don’t make enough money to be married to his daughter),
\-spending “too much” time together(the dad thinks we shouldn’t spend more than 2 hours together in a day even though we do things together like cooking, cleaning, going to shopping, going to the movies, going to events, and we do diy arts and crafts at her apartment),
\-Intimacy(the dad is highly religious and conservative so he is highly against intimacy in our relationship, so much so that he tells her staff that is supposed to be there to help her not to let us out of her sight when I come over to visit and not to let us close the door for privacy. He even said if she closes the door he will personally come to her apartment and take all the doors to every room off the hinges),
\-And lastly her dad uses our relationship as a tool of discipline, for example, if she didn’t take a shower for the day, suddenly she can’t see me for a day, has an argument with her dad about something, boom can’t see me for the day, slept in for a couple hours too long, nope can’t see me
All these disputes end up being “if we don’t listen to what he wants I can’t see her”
We need help with what we can do right now in the meantime we are trying to do the paperwork and wait for the hearing for the Petition to visitation
please help 🙏 let me know if you need more details