Can a Probation Officer Tell you can't live with your girlfriend in WV?

Ok here is the deal. I am moving from Florida to West Virginia to be with my boyfriend. I'm 28 and he is 30 so we aren't kids, I have a 4 year old daughter and got a really good job out there. We are in love and very serious about making this work.


We planned on getting a 3 bedroom apartment together when I move up there in 2 weeks. He notified his probation officer that I was moving here and we were going to live together. She told him thats not going to happen and she has to meet with me to go over rules and that he is going to get denied and that he is not allowed to live with me. I think this is crazy! He is not a violent person and has been on probation for 4 years with no problems and is suppose to be off in 1 year.


So now I have to go get this apartment by myself and he needs to stay in his current apartment till they make up there minds. Plus where we are moving is 4 miles from his current apartment.


Can they even do this?? I mean I understand giving notice to move but all of this seems a little out of line to me.





What do you think? Anyone know how WV works?Can a Probation Officer Tell you can't live with your girlfriend in WV?
I'm sure it works pretty much the same in WV as in most states. To a paroled felon, the PO is pretty much god. Or in his case, goddess. Who he lives with is very much an area that would concern a PO, especially if he has been doing so well for three years. The PO wants nothing more than to close out his case as a success, and she's going to be very attentive to any changes in his lifestyle.


Exercise patience, and when you meet the PO, do not let any attitude show. It would be extremely detrimental to your long-term desires to live with your bf, if you were to po the PO, if you know what I mean.Can a Probation Officer Tell you can't live with your girlfriend in WV?
Yes, this is routine. He cannot make a move or change his living situation without approval from his probation officer. The PO does not know you or anything about you. In a sense, someone on probation is under a kind of house arrest and anyone moving into that house must be investigated and oriented to the rules of the house.
It's not crazy. He's on probation too. (You make a lovely couple, I'm sure.) You cannot even talk knowingly with anyone still in the legal system.





Remember you are not a free citizen yet. The State is still responsible for you. You have to do everything you can to not have any problems.
the law can do what they want. one more year wont be nothing compared to 4. let the officer meet you and see where it goes from there. you can always visit him. good luck.
Well it depends what he is on probatoin for. They are probably investigating your background to make sure you don't trigger any temptation. Which might throw him back to jail.
Yes they can do this, if he breaks the rules set by his PO he could land himself in A LOT of trouble.
Both of you go talk to the PO face to face %26amp; see if she might change her mind.
do you have any sort of criminal background or any involvement in the case that caused his probation?
Yes they can do this..hes on probation.he has to stay in his current location until his probation is up. They may or may not allow him to move into the new appartment till his probation is up. thats just how it gos...sorry =(
until you discharge parole or probation pretty much what ever they say goes so that way any option to violate the terms and conditions of your probation or parole will be no more....pretty much they are babysitters til the court says otherwise.If you disreguard the conditions they make it easier to violate you and make you somebody elses problem even if you've been compliant with your probation any little thing can go against you if they choose to make it stick
Yes, they can do that. You're simply not understanding how it works. It's not a matter of ';giving notice'; to move, it's a matter of getting permission. Big difference!





Make nice. Keeping he probation officer happy is the way to keep your boyfriend happy.





Understand, too, that you will have to live with whatever restrictions he has on him if you live together. If he can't have booze in the house, the guess what, you can't either. If you have friends with records, they'll have to stay away.
I hope his past criminal behavior had nothing to do with children. Do you know for a fact what his offense/offenses were? They might be what is precluding approval of you and your daughter as cohabitants.





I will say this, too...out of all the men in the world, could you not have found one without a criminal past? It is not just you, but an innocent child you are bringing along. And if you two are so serious....why not marriage - why just living together? I do not understand mothers who put boyfriends before the best interests of their children.
Yes, they can. Probation officers can apply certain conditions on parolees. These are usually based on details of the crime committed.





For instance, is someone kidnapped someone and used a car to do it, they can be prohibited from driving cars during their probation.





These things are at the discretion or whim of the Probation Officer.