Hi All,
Great advice in this forum and thank you for all the support.
Background: My ex tried every length and extreme to purposefully restrict/limit my time with our child, because they wanted the child for themselves only. Became obvious in court, and we landed on a settlement seeing 50/50 parenting occurring in 2 years (graduated steps). My ex hates the settlement, but it was evident they were going to lose badly at trial, likely paying costs. So I'm glad to say it'll be 50/50 eventually, but until that time, my ex made sure that my access was terrible.
My ex has a job where they cannot take time off of work. For school PD days or random school closures when the kids are supposed to be in my ex's care, I always offer that if my ex cannot take the day off, I am more than willing to look after the kids.
However in efforts to ensure that I don't see the kids more than I am supposed to, my ex ignores my communications and then after-the-fact tells me that they got a family member or friend to look after the kids instead. Its petty really.
I tried addressing the above during drafting the agreement, but my ex played hardball insisting the clause come out. I did not want the settlement to fall apart which contained the goal of 50/50, so no such clause dealing with the situation exists in the settlement.
Any advice?
Great advice in this forum and thank you for all the support.
Background: My ex tried every length and extreme to purposefully restrict/limit my time with our child, because they wanted the child for themselves only. Became obvious in court, and we landed on a settlement seeing 50/50 parenting occurring in 2 years (graduated steps). My ex hates the settlement, but it was evident they were going to lose badly at trial, likely paying costs. So I'm glad to say it'll be 50/50 eventually, but until that time, my ex made sure that my access was terrible.
My ex has a job where they cannot take time off of work. For school PD days or random school closures when the kids are supposed to be in my ex's care, I always offer that if my ex cannot take the day off, I am more than willing to look after the kids.
However in efforts to ensure that I don't see the kids more than I am supposed to, my ex ignores my communications and then after-the-fact tells me that they got a family member or friend to look after the kids instead. Its petty really.
I tried addressing the above during drafting the agreement, but my ex played hardball insisting the clause come out. I did not want the settlement to fall apart which contained the goal of 50/50, so no such clause dealing with the situation exists in the settlement.
Any advice?
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