Hello!
I've been lurking around the forums for a short while but figured I'd introduce myself. I've been split up for about 4 years now and have a wonderful Son who I don't get to see much of. Unfortunately communication between my ex and I is non existent (and times when we do communicate is pretty non productive), and I've had to rely on family members to help with the basics of having a relationship with my Son.
We're joint Guardians but it's pretty apparent she doesn't want anything to do with me and thus my Son is negatively affected. It's pretty frustrating but I'm moving forward to keep his and my relationship connected.
Having talked to other parents, keeping organized and documenting problems with the other Party are paramount to defending ones rights and abilities to fulfill their responsibilities as a Parent and Guardian. I know various levels of Government have programs designed to help with Support but I've not seen any similar programs dealing with Guardianship or Access Enforcement, so it would seem (at least here in BC) keeping responsibilities and expectations well defined and pursuing contradictions is what it comes down to.
I've started working on a set of services for Canadian Parents to help keep track of issues related to their "Cases". My hope is other parents will benefit from having web based tools to keep track of time, incidents and scheduling so they can focus more on the important things in life than spats and alienation with the other Parent.
I know of similar services in the United States but none designed with Canadian or British Columbia Family Law in mind.
The service is still under development and I hope to have it available for pilot testing in the next month or two but I'd really like to hear other Canadian Parents on how such a service could help them. (And my apologies if this post is inappropriate, but I figure this is of interest to other Parents).
In its current development form the service supports case management with the ability to define children and members of the case (family members, friends, legal representatives etc), and to add Case Journal entries to keep track of various events. The next set of features I'm looking at adding are web based Email for communicating with other members of the case, archiving of such messages and scheduling of visitation and access times.
I'd really love to hear your thoughts on this and what tools you could use for dealing with communication and problem tracking in your Separations.
Cheers
Matthew
I've been lurking around the forums for a short while but figured I'd introduce myself. I've been split up for about 4 years now and have a wonderful Son who I don't get to see much of. Unfortunately communication between my ex and I is non existent (and times when we do communicate is pretty non productive), and I've had to rely on family members to help with the basics of having a relationship with my Son.
We're joint Guardians but it's pretty apparent she doesn't want anything to do with me and thus my Son is negatively affected. It's pretty frustrating but I'm moving forward to keep his and my relationship connected.
Having talked to other parents, keeping organized and documenting problems with the other Party are paramount to defending ones rights and abilities to fulfill their responsibilities as a Parent and Guardian. I know various levels of Government have programs designed to help with Support but I've not seen any similar programs dealing with Guardianship or Access Enforcement, so it would seem (at least here in BC) keeping responsibilities and expectations well defined and pursuing contradictions is what it comes down to.
I've started working on a set of services for Canadian Parents to help keep track of issues related to their "Cases". My hope is other parents will benefit from having web based tools to keep track of time, incidents and scheduling so they can focus more on the important things in life than spats and alienation with the other Parent.
I know of similar services in the United States but none designed with Canadian or British Columbia Family Law in mind.
The service is still under development and I hope to have it available for pilot testing in the next month or two but I'd really like to hear other Canadian Parents on how such a service could help them. (And my apologies if this post is inappropriate, but I figure this is of interest to other Parents).
In its current development form the service supports case management with the ability to define children and members of the case (family members, friends, legal representatives etc), and to add Case Journal entries to keep track of various events. The next set of features I'm looking at adding are web based Email for communicating with other members of the case, archiving of such messages and scheduling of visitation and access times.
I'd really love to hear your thoughts on this and what tools you could use for dealing with communication and problem tracking in your Separations.
Cheers
Matthew
