Hello,
My child is 11.5 years old and has lived with me full time for 2.5 years. I filed motion for sole custody at the request of the CAS and was granted sole custody. Supervised access was ordered for Mom.
Mom has had a pattern of disappearing over the last 2.5 years. She initially went a period of almost 6 months with no phone calls or requests for visitation. There was another such break in contact for 3 months and currently she has not called her child since this past June.
Visits were attempted at the supervised access center but eventually ended due to child refusal. The first visit was ended after several warnings by staff to stop making negative comments about me and then my child used their "safe word" to indicate they wanted to leave. Following this there were two child refusals and the visits have stopped.
My ex has served my lawyer with a notice of motion requesting access to our child. So far they have made no indication of what type of access they are looking for. They are also asking for consent to start reunification Therapy.
My question is, will a court actually force a child his age to go to therapy with his mother? He is dead set against seeing her and I know that unless I physically force him to go to therapy, he's not going to go willingly.
My child is 11.5 years old and has lived with me full time for 2.5 years. I filed motion for sole custody at the request of the CAS and was granted sole custody. Supervised access was ordered for Mom.
Mom has had a pattern of disappearing over the last 2.5 years. She initially went a period of almost 6 months with no phone calls or requests for visitation. There was another such break in contact for 3 months and currently she has not called her child since this past June.
Visits were attempted at the supervised access center but eventually ended due to child refusal. The first visit was ended after several warnings by staff to stop making negative comments about me and then my child used their "safe word" to indicate they wanted to leave. Following this there were two child refusals and the visits have stopped.
My ex has served my lawyer with a notice of motion requesting access to our child. So far they have made no indication of what type of access they are looking for. They are also asking for consent to start reunification Therapy.
My question is, will a court actually force a child his age to go to therapy with his mother? He is dead set against seeing her and I know that unless I physically force him to go to therapy, he's not going to go willingly.
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