Blah...just blah.
Despite my best efforts, I found out today my oldest son will be repeating a grade. The first half of the year his mother spent dragging him over the city (into 3 separate school zones no less) meant the damage done to his knowledge was unrecoverable this year.
I feel bad for him, luckily he's not the only one from his class running into those difficulties, so he won't be alone at least.
For those of you who have been following my little rants, there's other news.
She (the ex) returned to the province, I had submitted a court motion to have the agreement we had made back in February made official, however her lawyer was not able to reach her to get authorization to sign off.
Surprisingly, she's still trying to fight me over custody, against the advice of her lawyer no less. (He's legal aid, so he gets paid no matter what, but meh).
Judge basically ruled for sole custody to me, access to her, pending a final hearing in November. (Yep, if she's still being unreasonable, I'm going to be in the 5% that make it to trial). Assessment is done, or supposed to be done, but I haven't received word yet on what it says. She's apparently "wanting to participate" now...that makes 3 times? 4? she's said that and has failed to follow through.
Anyway, she doesn't have proper accommodations to take the kids for the full time under the existing order (she has a ONE bedroom apartment, my lawyer basically gave her the choice of do days, do 2 kids/weekend or we go back to court). She chose to exercise just 5 hours of access/week. (ONE day visits).
In other news, CRA has taken 5 months to render a decision on my latest application to have the CCTB reflect the latest developments. (Of course, she refuses to call them, and has collected the payments for the last 2 months quite willingly).
It got to the point I had to involve my local MP to have it expedited. (CRA LOST the application and supporting docs I sent via registered mail, and then proceeded to give me the run around for 6 weeks, only to FIND them again 11 weeks later, and then backdate the entry in their system, wiping out reference to the second application I sent via fax in the process).
So for anyone having issues with the CRA and the CCTB/UCCB applications, if you call your MP they actually have a Member of Parliament Resolution Agent that has the authority to expedite requests. Mine is currently marked "URGENT" from what I am told.
Other than that the children are currently doing well, things FINALLY appear to be stable. From what the overpaid lawyer tells me, she doesn't have a hope in hell of getting custody back. She'll wind up with access, but how much is totally up in the air.
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