Hello everyone,
I am curious to know if the conduct of my children's father would appear as badly in court, as it does to me but being that he is my ex I'm not exactly bias on this...
Long story short:
We have been separated for just over three years. In that time he has "come and gone" in the children's lives. I have always allowed him access to the children as regardless of "me and him"; he is their dad and they need him.
There have been some major safety concerns and the children have not spent over night with their dad for a number of months (police, etc., investigations continuing). I had received his court application to live with/ spend time, and we have had our first interim family court appearance (he is seeking the children live with him and spend time with me).
On the first court date, he let rip... He was handed an unsealed copy of my affidavit and lost it...(this is normal behaviour). He was swearing and yelling at his lawyer to the point that security had to come and his lawyer was telling him to be quite and put him in a room away from everyone else to calm himself. When we went before the Judge, he was slammed down in a chair huffing and puffing. The Judge ordered for the interim that I and he have to organise a contact centre.
I have done this, he has not. The Judge also said he is not to see the children until the contact centre is sorted. This was all in August and we are going back to court in Oct.
Since that date he has gone to the children's school to see the children and had to be escorted off the school grounds due to his "aggressiveness". He has phoned and abused the receptionist demanding to speak to my worker at my support centre.
He has now moved an hour and a half away from where he was living (he was living 10 min from the children before). He told our young son that he was moving and when our son asked "how will you see us?" he said "the court will make your mother bring you , no one can stop me moving". (our case in partly a relocation case too)
I have been extremely careful that the children know nothing about what is going on, so I was shocked when our son told me that. He is sharing a one bedroom unit with a friend in a block of units that contain 780 flats and lost his job as he abused the boss's wife :/.
He sleeps on the couch. I only know where he is as a friend of mine lives near there. He has refused to tell me his address. I encourage the children to phone him at least three times per week, but 9 times out of ten he dose not answer and has never once phoned them back.\
I guess, I'm just looking for some opinions on what his chances are of having custody of children?
Sorry for the long winded post and thank you for reading this far
I am curious to know if the conduct of my children's father would appear as badly in court, as it does to me but being that he is my ex I'm not exactly bias on this...
Long story short:
We have been separated for just over three years. In that time he has "come and gone" in the children's lives. I have always allowed him access to the children as regardless of "me and him"; he is their dad and they need him.
There have been some major safety concerns and the children have not spent over night with their dad for a number of months (police, etc., investigations continuing). I had received his court application to live with/ spend time, and we have had our first interim family court appearance (he is seeking the children live with him and spend time with me).
On the first court date, he let rip... He was handed an unsealed copy of my affidavit and lost it...(this is normal behaviour). He was swearing and yelling at his lawyer to the point that security had to come and his lawyer was telling him to be quite and put him in a room away from everyone else to calm himself. When we went before the Judge, he was slammed down in a chair huffing and puffing. The Judge ordered for the interim that I and he have to organise a contact centre.
I have done this, he has not. The Judge also said he is not to see the children until the contact centre is sorted. This was all in August and we are going back to court in Oct.
Since that date he has gone to the children's school to see the children and had to be escorted off the school grounds due to his "aggressiveness". He has phoned and abused the receptionist demanding to speak to my worker at my support centre.
He has now moved an hour and a half away from where he was living (he was living 10 min from the children before). He told our young son that he was moving and when our son asked "how will you see us?" he said "the court will make your mother bring you , no one can stop me moving". (our case in partly a relocation case too)
I have been extremely careful that the children know nothing about what is going on, so I was shocked when our son told me that. He is sharing a one bedroom unit with a friend in a block of units that contain 780 flats and lost his job as he abused the boss's wife :/.
He sleeps on the couch. I only know where he is as a friend of mine lives near there. He has refused to tell me his address. I encourage the children to phone him at least three times per week, but 9 times out of ten he dose not answer and has never once phoned them back.\
I guess, I'm just looking for some opinions on what his chances are of having custody of children?
Sorry for the long winded post and thank you for reading this far