On Wednesday, I attended court with the understand that it was a case conference, to be then told by the Judge it was a settlement conference and that the judge wanted to make a final order.
I was taken off guard by this as my ex had not filed any of the required paperwork on time (being that she is the applicant) and I had no idea she was even willing to settle or what she wanted.
I refused to make any decision on the spot, as the judge wanted. So the Judge has asked that my ex and I prepare a settlement by passing it back and forth, that she can then turn into a final order in January.
During the proceeding, I had agreed to waive trial and allow the judge to create a final order after my ex and I have hashed out what we want. The problem is that I don't believe my ex has any intension of settling. I don't believe she takes any comfort in the OCL report or CAS report that basically says my parenting of our son is reasonable and frankly I don't have any faith in her ever being able to put our sons needs first.
I am still not really sure what I want to do, I just wanted to know what my options are. I plan to send my ex an amended settlement offer this week but I still need to know if it's possible to file a motion or something with the court to advise them that I no longer agree to waive trial?
I was taken off guard by this as my ex had not filed any of the required paperwork on time (being that she is the applicant) and I had no idea she was even willing to settle or what she wanted.
I refused to make any decision on the spot, as the judge wanted. So the Judge has asked that my ex and I prepare a settlement by passing it back and forth, that she can then turn into a final order in January.
During the proceeding, I had agreed to waive trial and allow the judge to create a final order after my ex and I have hashed out what we want. The problem is that I don't believe my ex has any intension of settling. I don't believe she takes any comfort in the OCL report or CAS report that basically says my parenting of our son is reasonable and frankly I don't have any faith in her ever being able to put our sons needs first.
I am still not really sure what I want to do, I just wanted to know what my options are. I plan to send my ex an amended settlement offer this week but I still need to know if it's possible to file a motion or something with the court to advise them that I no longer agree to waive trial?
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