Hi everyone
After a long drawn out 3 years, my bf finally got to a point he was getting his children every second weekend for sleepovers, and alternating Wednesdays. Two fortnights ago she rocked up ten minutes early for their drop off, sat in the driveway on her phone and the kids didn't exit the car. She took off after about 5 minutes.
We hadn't realised she was there, only saw it on our security cameras (which she is aware we have and for this reason we think it is staged) and then of course 3.30pm comes and no kids
We called, texted, and kept following up and finally heard back about 30 minutes later where she replied "the kids didn't want to get out and DCP have advised I am not to force them, and it is best to get them home and settled"????
Since then we have not seen the children, so two full weekends and a very long month later, we have been asking our lawyer what we can do next, and due to his lack of response , long delays and very uninterested manner, we have decided to go out alone once again. Too much money has been spent to date to achieve absolutely nothing and we seem to have gone backwards.
Has anyone got similar situations going on and have any advice of best plan of attack?
Context: the children absolutely love my partner, have gotten back to being very close with him after years of lost time, the ex is extremely manipulative, vindictive and has severe mental health issues, has been in and out of hospital because of this, and to her the children are her source of income due to never having worked in her life.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
After a long drawn out 3 years, my bf finally got to a point he was getting his children every second weekend for sleepovers, and alternating Wednesdays. Two fortnights ago she rocked up ten minutes early for their drop off, sat in the driveway on her phone and the kids didn't exit the car. She took off after about 5 minutes.
We hadn't realised she was there, only saw it on our security cameras (which she is aware we have and for this reason we think it is staged) and then of course 3.30pm comes and no kids
We called, texted, and kept following up and finally heard back about 30 minutes later where she replied "the kids didn't want to get out and DCP have advised I am not to force them, and it is best to get them home and settled"????
Since then we have not seen the children, so two full weekends and a very long month later, we have been asking our lawyer what we can do next, and due to his lack of response , long delays and very uninterested manner, we have decided to go out alone once again. Too much money has been spent to date to achieve absolutely nothing and we seem to have gone backwards.
Has anyone got similar situations going on and have any advice of best plan of attack?
Context: the children absolutely love my partner, have gotten back to being very close with him after years of lost time, the ex is extremely manipulative, vindictive and has severe mental health issues, has been in and out of hospital because of this, and to her the children are her source of income due to never having worked in her life.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
