My divorce has been going on for about two years now and wehave just agreed to an interim parenting order that will be reviewed in Spring2020. My situation is that my ex left the children who are now 9 and 6 and I inJanuary 2018 and moved into a condo that did not allow children and saw thechildren once a week on the weekends. She stayed there for a year and thenmoved back to our neighbourhood into a two bedroom condo with her boyfriend andasked for shared parenting which I did not agree with. I agreed to graduallyincreasing her visitation and agreed to the children having one overnight onSundays and also visitation on Wednesdays and Friday evenings. That went on fora couple of months and then we went to court and the parenting time got revisedand now the children are with her every other weekend and she gets to see themon a Thursday on her off weekend. Her lawyer was trying to go to a one week onone week off schedule and wanted me to pay her child support as she iscurrently paying child support me.
We will have a review hearing in Spring 2020 and she is hoping to get 50 / 50shared custody and for me to start paying her child support. The children havebeen doing well with me as I have always been the primary care giver andcontinued to do so when she left. I have read that the courts normally do notwant to disrupt the children’s schedule especially if the children are doingwell and I would like to keep the schedule we have now.
Do you guys feel that the court will decide that the children should move to aone week on one week off schedule if the children have been living primarilywith me? I am very confused as my lawyer seems to think that is the way thecourt will decide but all the readings I have done seem to favor the statusquo.
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YYC_SingleDad
We will have a review hearing in Spring 2020 and she is hoping to get 50 / 50shared custody and for me to start paying her child support. The children havebeen doing well with me as I have always been the primary care giver andcontinued to do so when she left. I have read that the courts normally do notwant to disrupt the children’s schedule especially if the children are doingwell and I would like to keep the schedule we have now.
Do you guys feel that the court will decide that the children should move to aone week on one week off schedule if the children have been living primarilywith me? I am very confused as my lawyer seems to think that is the way thecourt will decide but all the readings I have done seem to favor the statusquo.
Thanks
YYC_SingleDad
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