<human>: I don't know if this is the right place to be putting this thing, but I didn't know what other subreddit to put this in, so here goes nothing.

Let me say that I myself am a 31 year old with a child of 15.  I raised her until she was 13 with her mother until we broke up and I moved away to better my life.  (Please no comments on that)

So I am now in a somewhat healthy relationship with someone for about three months.  She has a daughter of 2 years and 3 months she is a LITTLE bit over protective for starters and mothers the child a LOT more than I did with my daughter.  Nor was daughter even half as fussy as her is...but we won't get into that either.

Ok my problem is is that she has supervised visitations and the ex and he comes by to her apartment to which from her side of the story, he loafs around and is a very poor parent.  According to their court order, HE SHOULD be taking her by himself already on the weekends, but the child hardly knows him and cries and whimpers a lot when neither of her grandparents, nor the mother are around  So naturally she doesn't let her go with him and breaks the court order, but with somewhat good reason.  The father does not really try I suppose nor does he take her back to court...

So what really does go on with a supervied visitation, and why is he allowed to not really do too much?  Is he suppose to come over all the time to HER PLACE, because the child is 2 years and 3 months and maybe they could meet some place else?  Not saying there is any funny business going on, but I'd like to have my GF and the father to have much less face time together so that he doesn't get some sort of false sense of hope about them getting back together. 

Any input would be awesome.

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<bot>: What goes on between the mother and father in a supervised visitation and where at?  Don't like my GF and her ex together too much.