Thai Mother Want Child Back.

[Gooddaddy]

Hi. My daughter was born in thailand. Now has australian citizenship and aussie passport. I lived with her mother there, untill two months ago. We never married, i am on the birth certificate but i didnt have custody of the child in thailand. We both decided that our daughter will come to australia to live with me. My daughter left with me from bangkok airport in janurary. Her mother came to the airport with us, we supplied some id, photocopies of family book, passports, and a handwritten note by my daughters mother to the immigration police and she gave permission for my daughter to come with me. So it was all done legally. Since coming here we have seperated over the telephone. Earlier this month i found out she was back in pattaya selling her body. I called her to confront her with her actions and her new boyfriend/customer answered and would not let me speak with her. He told me to bring my daughter to thailand. I obviously said no. She has told me through him that she has changed her mind, and wants our daughter to come back. Of course i dont want that. I am worried though because it seems that if she was to get a court order from a thai court saying i had a case to answer regarding our daughters legal status that would have to be passed to the australian family court who would decide if she was returned to her mother. It isnt a case of abduction, but rather one where the mother has 'changed her mind' due to her new circumstances. She is a good mother, but a bad role model. Also she may have financial support now from this guy but who knows how long that will last. CONSIDERING these set of circumstances, does anyone know what a thai court procedure would be in such a case. It is not a case of abduction, but rather a case of the mother having a new love and wanting her child back. By the way, i am am excellent father, my daughter is very happy living here with my mother and me. Her level of learning has really sped up in this stimulated environment i really so strongly dont want her to be have to returned to thailand to face an uncertain random future. I got her out of that country, i thought it was over, but now it seems that it could turn into a saga very easily.