Doesn't sound like she's making anything close to a genuine effort to resolve things in a fair & reasonable manner ....
1) How long have you been married?
2) Was the business bought into the relationship by one of you? .... Or started during the relationship. If so how long has it been operating
3) How old are the kids .... Are they included as protected persons on the ADVO?
4) How long have you been separated
5) Have you attended mediation over the kids?
She has not and my lawyers agree she is acting way out of line
1) 15 1/2 years
2) We registered it and started it as a family partnership.Money goes into joint savings account and started 3 years ago. Before that we worked in a different business for 4 years in the same industry but slightly different which was in her name as a sole trader. But i quit my fulltime job to help her with it working from home mostly. Before that we worked for other companies since the start of our marriage.
3) 9 and 4 now (missed 4th birthday) Yes they are included. . Initially said i threatened her when she left. She was already packing her stuff and moving to her parents. I was smart enough to film her come without police and just start taking everything. Then she came back with cops on same day to collect more and said i had threatened her. Hmmm i took video before that. I also called police when i tried to get home when i was refused to see my kids but they said they couldn't do nothing.
Then 10 days after she came with cops to collect more of her stuff and the last 1/4 of the childrens clothes and tried to get the kids passports and birth certificates. I refused because i feared she might move elsewhere. Cops said i have the right and said she couldn't take those items.
She was angry and rough handling everything after i refused her passports and went to police station to file a complaint against police because she reckons she was told her rights before but because i refused the passports and birth certificates she filed a complaint. Then 1 hr later wrote a statement to get an AVO on me claiming text messages as harassment, death threats and abuse for 9 years. All my texts where of concern about what was happening. Police agreed there was nothing threatening in my messages but reckon i sent too many. They were about money been withdrawn, relationship, marriage counciling, kids etc. All nice and i was very worried about what was happening and had no idea. How the kids were put on that is beyond me. She would not put AVO on me 11 days later if she feared for her life and turn up without cops between that or allow me 3 minutes to go inside while she was here to get medicals. She has no evidence of what she claims and i never have been violent towards anyone.
4) nearly 6 months
5) Mediation rejected my offer because simply there are kids on the application AVO. It's very hard during covid-19 and lock down because of the delays in court dates