(I'm new here and I did just do this post already but I think I put it in wrong category so I re post it here , hopefully someone can move the thread I started in other section?)
Hi so just a brief on my situation, managed to get interim order at first hearing to see my little girl so been doing supervised contact every week for last 4 months , costs fully covered by myself as my ex only works 16hours a week . Section 7 came back fully in my favour regarding all my exs allegations been baseless and the fact I had evidence of text messages to support what I had been saying . Despite s7 recommending moving to unsupervised contact just had dra hearing and because my ex wouldn't agree with s7 recommendations it is now going to a contested hearing but means I'm still stuck in supervised centre for another 4 months until the next hearing in August.
Seems the issue with not having proper judge at the hearing meant they wouldn't over rule my ex playing hard ball . She is just delaying the inevitable as she will get picked to pieces at the contested hearing as social worker doing s7 report had already picked holes throughout her story .
What options if any do I have for the time been , can I get an urgent hearing or anything ?
I have self represented up until now but with it going to contested hearing I'll now get legal representative assigned to me.
My issue is as I stated in court its most of all not putting my daughters best interests first just been in a supervised room , especially now she just started walking and running around .
I work full time so will I be entitled to any help from social services to cover costs for the remainder of contact centre ?
I'm also paying child maintenance which is privately agreed between me and ex partner which I pay direct to her bank every month , I know if I make the decision to stop this payment she will go straight down the proper child maintenance support route and possibly cost me more, and I don't want to stop payments for my daughter but I feel something has to give somewhere and I need to decide between reducing the amount of contact we have at contact centre or try and reduce what I'm paying in child maintenance as continuing to do both just isn't financially viable ?
All I have asked for my proposals also was every other weekend Fri to Mon and one overnight during the week and this is what the section 7 agreed to as the recommendations also . What concerns me is how much section 7 reports the concern of parental alienation from my ex towards me that I'm now thinking at the contested hearing I want to increase my proposals to something more like a 60/40 split, 3 days a week for myself 4 days for my ex . Can I now change what I have asked for? I think this will benefit my daughter more as its more time with each parent for her to get fully used to growing up with a second home , will be less direct contact with my ex also . I'm just unsure how I would now go about asking for this proposal , just hoping for some advice and help from anyone please and thank you for taking time to read this.
Hi so just a brief on my situation, managed to get interim order at first hearing to see my little girl so been doing supervised contact every week for last 4 months , costs fully covered by myself as my ex only works 16hours a week . Section 7 came back fully in my favour regarding all my exs allegations been baseless and the fact I had evidence of text messages to support what I had been saying . Despite s7 recommending moving to unsupervised contact just had dra hearing and because my ex wouldn't agree with s7 recommendations it is now going to a contested hearing but means I'm still stuck in supervised centre for another 4 months until the next hearing in August.
Seems the issue with not having proper judge at the hearing meant they wouldn't over rule my ex playing hard ball . She is just delaying the inevitable as she will get picked to pieces at the contested hearing as social worker doing s7 report had already picked holes throughout her story .
What options if any do I have for the time been , can I get an urgent hearing or anything ?
I have self represented up until now but with it going to contested hearing I'll now get legal representative assigned to me.
My issue is as I stated in court its most of all not putting my daughters best interests first just been in a supervised room , especially now she just started walking and running around .
I work full time so will I be entitled to any help from social services to cover costs for the remainder of contact centre ?
I'm also paying child maintenance which is privately agreed between me and ex partner which I pay direct to her bank every month , I know if I make the decision to stop this payment she will go straight down the proper child maintenance support route and possibly cost me more, and I don't want to stop payments for my daughter but I feel something has to give somewhere and I need to decide between reducing the amount of contact we have at contact centre or try and reduce what I'm paying in child maintenance as continuing to do both just isn't financially viable ?
All I have asked for my proposals also was every other weekend Fri to Mon and one overnight during the week and this is what the section 7 agreed to as the recommendations also . What concerns me is how much section 7 reports the concern of parental alienation from my ex towards me that I'm now thinking at the contested hearing I want to increase my proposals to something more like a 60/40 split, 3 days a week for myself 4 days for my ex . Can I now change what I have asked for? I think this will benefit my daughter more as its more time with each parent for her to get fully used to growing up with a second home , will be less direct contact with my ex also . I'm just unsure how I would now go about asking for this proposal , just hoping for some advice and help from anyone please and thank you for taking time to read this.