I have a question concerning Primary Caregiver with joint custody.
My ex common law partner and I had an aggreement drawn up by and lawyer and signed and delivered to court. Its states that I am the primary caregiver and we have joint custody to our 5 year old daughter.
I give every consideration to his schedule and he is very demanding and contolling in every way. He takes her all of his days off which are sporadic at best. 3 days one week then 2 days per week the next. which we agreed to in emails. This is hard to do since our daughters schedule involves two schools and lots of travel time. I do my best with arranging for him to see her when he can. He is always changing his schedule and then making it hard for me to arrange mine. He has been on workmans comp now for 2 months. My question is this, if he demands to see her 4 days for one week, and I don't agree to this what are my rights? Can he demand to see her. He is trying to take her as many days as he can to lower his CS. Its all about the money to him. He loves his daughter, but its clear cut that its all about the CS. If I don't agree to let him have her on the days that HE wants, how does that affect me as to what I can not agree to and what I can? It looks so one sided if I say no, but why should I let him make all of the schedule?
We are in a CS dispute at the moment. All this aside because it doesn't have anything to do with child custody, and I know I can't deny him seeing her. I am trying to work out some sort of schedule with him. The best interest of the child is everything and I agree it should be.
Please help
Thanks
My ex common law partner and I had an aggreement drawn up by and lawyer and signed and delivered to court. Its states that I am the primary caregiver and we have joint custody to our 5 year old daughter.
I give every consideration to his schedule and he is very demanding and contolling in every way. He takes her all of his days off which are sporadic at best. 3 days one week then 2 days per week the next. which we agreed to in emails. This is hard to do since our daughters schedule involves two schools and lots of travel time. I do my best with arranging for him to see her when he can. He is always changing his schedule and then making it hard for me to arrange mine. He has been on workmans comp now for 2 months. My question is this, if he demands to see her 4 days for one week, and I don't agree to this what are my rights? Can he demand to see her. He is trying to take her as many days as he can to lower his CS. Its all about the money to him. He loves his daughter, but its clear cut that its all about the CS. If I don't agree to let him have her on the days that HE wants, how does that affect me as to what I can not agree to and what I can? It looks so one sided if I say no, but why should I let him make all of the schedule?
We are in a CS dispute at the moment. All this aside because it doesn't have anything to do with child custody, and I know I can't deny him seeing her. I am trying to work out some sort of schedule with him. The best interest of the child is everything and I agree it should be.
Please help
Thanks
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