Not when current drug charges are involved as in this case. At a mimimum, a guardian ad litem would be appointed for supervised visitation and court-ordered drug testing.
the guardian ad litum would be appointed not for the pending drug charges but simply to give the baby an objective voice between disputing parents if it comes to that
folks with felonies pending or convicted or just out of prison etc have the same rights to custody and visitation as anyone else normally unless it can be proven it's relative to endangering the child which more often involves abuse to the child not a crime committed by the parent.
I realize it would seem conventional wisdom but it's not.
I know because I lived this in Dade County family court in 1996, I'm not making it up.
Whether or not a court mandates pre sentencing drug testing or not has nothing to do with the fathers or the grandparents visitation unless they are endangering the child.
...and that will require proof.
that may vary state to state but in Florida it doesn't and in libertarian Alaska I bet it doesn't change much
I don't know one felon who has ever lost custody or even had it diminished any unless abandonment or abuse was involved.
And how the boy's mom acts even with a drug problem has nothing to do with him being allowed to see a child he fathered.
But that does bring up another issue which this time I have no experience with. What rights does the unwed father have in Alaska?
Don't know.