Hi dads,
So I have just had a section 7 DRA and I do not feel the court has followed procedure and acted unjustly.
Section 7 recommendations states that :"arrangements to remain in place for a further 6 months with a view to stepped arrangements"
Firstly , this is not what the court asked for in the hearing when it was ordered. They asked Cafcass to do "stepped arrangements with a view to a final order if possible"
Secondly, as the CAFCASS recommendations were unclear and worded in such a way, (the only thing being clear was keep arrangements the same)my barrister requested for adjournment to have CAFCASS on a call that day to clarify, the court said that they had a hearing scheduled straight after and so could not due to time constraints.
So a final hearing was booked in 2 months time with cafcass in attendance.
Exes barrister argument was that further delay would risk prejudicing the welfare of the child.
So this is a mad tactic by ex to actually push for a sooner final hearing , so I don't have enough time with child for the court to even remotely any other type of final order, however, I do know however she has said she does not want a final hearing and so it's bizarre. So she goes from delaying everything , to then pushing everything as fast as possible.
This is a massive turn of exes strategy to delay, and I believe the reason I'm doing so is that so I don't have stable bonding time to prevent me getting the order I have asked for because without the stable period as per Cafcass it makes it almost impossible for the court to make an order in the absence of such.
What I do know is that ex is not wanting to do a final hearing so it's a double edge strategy for her.
I feel in this position that because ex refused to agree to anything for the next 6 months, I have a final hearing in janurary and by the time I get to this hearing, it would be impossible to have anything other than a spends time with / loves with order in favour of ex due to her blocking me and such little time of contact.
What would you guys recommend I do in this case?
Is such little time with my child , (5 months ) going to impact the type of order I get,? How can the court put a progressive arrangement of 7 months until she is 2 in place without any overnights or full routine days being tested? It makes no sense
So I have just had a section 7 DRA and I do not feel the court has followed procedure and acted unjustly.
Section 7 recommendations states that :"arrangements to remain in place for a further 6 months with a view to stepped arrangements"
Firstly , this is not what the court asked for in the hearing when it was ordered. They asked Cafcass to do "stepped arrangements with a view to a final order if possible"
Secondly, as the CAFCASS recommendations were unclear and worded in such a way, (the only thing being clear was keep arrangements the same)my barrister requested for adjournment to have CAFCASS on a call that day to clarify, the court said that they had a hearing scheduled straight after and so could not due to time constraints.
So a final hearing was booked in 2 months time with cafcass in attendance.
Exes barrister argument was that further delay would risk prejudicing the welfare of the child.
So this is a mad tactic by ex to actually push for a sooner final hearing , so I don't have enough time with child for the court to even remotely any other type of final order, however, I do know however she has said she does not want a final hearing and so it's bizarre. So she goes from delaying everything , to then pushing everything as fast as possible.
This is a massive turn of exes strategy to delay, and I believe the reason I'm doing so is that so I don't have stable bonding time to prevent me getting the order I have asked for because without the stable period as per Cafcass it makes it almost impossible for the court to make an order in the absence of such.
What I do know is that ex is not wanting to do a final hearing so it's a double edge strategy for her.
I feel in this position that because ex refused to agree to anything for the next 6 months, I have a final hearing in janurary and by the time I get to this hearing, it would be impossible to have anything other than a spends time with / loves with order in favour of ex due to her blocking me and such little time of contact.
What would you guys recommend I do in this case?
Is such little time with my child , (5 months ) going to impact the type of order I get,? How can the court put a progressive arrangement of 7 months until she is 2 in place without any overnights or full routine days being tested? It makes no sense