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I am looking for advice from Canadians.
I have been in an on-going increasingly vicious dispute with 2 and half year old daughter’s mother, which is taking increasing turns for the worse. __In short – we lived in Europe for the first year when mother took daughter back to Canada.
Since then I have travelled to Canada 14 times for between 1 an 6 weeks (usually around 2) in the last 20 months to be with our daughter.
In 2009 on each trip my parenting time was reduced significantly [by the mother] every time I traveled and finally I had to resort to taking our daughter‘s mother to court [Hague convention].
Eventually there was a temporary court order wrt access was issued which protected the time our daughter and I had together (approx 28 hours out of every 48). This expired earlier on in the summer (when Hague wasn’t upheld – quite convoluted – but habitual residence in Europe was not established ?]
When I arrived in Canada [14th trip] to see our daughter, I was told there was no longer any court order and that I would have to sign a document agreeing to 45% less time than had been previously court ordered OR agree to supervised access. I refused and had the door shut in my face – I reacted and stopped the door being closed using my body. My daughter’s mother and a friend (who was behind the door) called the police, said I assaulted them and I was arrested.
I was quite traumatized by the whole situation - I am going along with the new schedule under duress – until I can get anther court date. I don’t know what to expect.
I find each trip to Canada harrowing and am exhausted.__Any advice would be welcome?
I have been in an on-going increasingly vicious dispute with 2 and half year old daughter’s mother, which is taking increasing turns for the worse. __In short – we lived in Europe for the first year when mother took daughter back to Canada.
Since then I have travelled to Canada 14 times for between 1 an 6 weeks (usually around 2) in the last 20 months to be with our daughter.
In 2009 on each trip my parenting time was reduced significantly [by the mother] every time I traveled and finally I had to resort to taking our daughter‘s mother to court [Hague convention].
Eventually there was a temporary court order wrt access was issued which protected the time our daughter and I had together (approx 28 hours out of every 48). This expired earlier on in the summer (when Hague wasn’t upheld – quite convoluted – but habitual residence in Europe was not established ?]
When I arrived in Canada [14th trip] to see our daughter, I was told there was no longer any court order and that I would have to sign a document agreeing to 45% less time than had been previously court ordered OR agree to supervised access. I refused and had the door shut in my face – I reacted and stopped the door being closed using my body. My daughter’s mother and a friend (who was behind the door) called the police, said I assaulted them and I was arrested.
I was quite traumatized by the whole situation - I am going along with the new schedule under duress – until I can get anther court date. I don’t know what to expect.
I find each trip to Canada harrowing and am exhausted.__Any advice would be welcome?
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