Hi - me and my ex are back in court this Wednesday, 6 weeks after interim orders were put into place...I have lodged x2 affidavits mainly to deny her allegations of domestic violence.
Long story short - her case is all about me and her where my argument is purely for the girls and stability...
Would the judge most likely make interim orders permanent this week and how much do they take a child dispute memo into consideration (where my ex has again made a lot of false allegations...)?
I have tried to reason with her so we could avoid putting the children (almost 6 years old) through being assessed by the child dispute team but she is pulling rank and for her it all seems to be about turning everything into a fight for supremacy. One of us has to "give in" or take a step back to take a step forward otherwise we risk putting the children through this and ultimately letting someone independent make a decision for us.
I only want to resume our 5 on 5 off agreement that worked from last Sept/Jan but she and as per interim orders has me seeing them alternate weekends Fri-Mon, every Wed night overnight and the weekend I don't have the girls I collect them from school fri until 7pm when she collects them.
The previous arrangement only was interrupted when she "withheld the children for nearly 3 weeks" which in effect gave her an unfair advantage and as I chose to take them out of school and keep them off school for 3 days it gave her the chance to apply for a retrieval order and then speed the process up into court.
The lawyer I was using advised me to sign the interim orders agreement otherwise risk seeing the girls on supervised visits because of my ex's allegations and so I didn't want to take that risk and signed it but also on the basis that this week there would be a chance to defend myself and try and get a fairer outcome.
Also I have decided to represent myself in family court - the same as my ex did at the initial hearing....
Long story short - her case is all about me and her where my argument is purely for the girls and stability...
Would the judge most likely make interim orders permanent this week and how much do they take a child dispute memo into consideration (where my ex has again made a lot of false allegations...)?
I have tried to reason with her so we could avoid putting the children (almost 6 years old) through being assessed by the child dispute team but she is pulling rank and for her it all seems to be about turning everything into a fight for supremacy. One of us has to "give in" or take a step back to take a step forward otherwise we risk putting the children through this and ultimately letting someone independent make a decision for us.
I only want to resume our 5 on 5 off agreement that worked from last Sept/Jan but she and as per interim orders has me seeing them alternate weekends Fri-Mon, every Wed night overnight and the weekend I don't have the girls I collect them from school fri until 7pm when she collects them.
The previous arrangement only was interrupted when she "withheld the children for nearly 3 weeks" which in effect gave her an unfair advantage and as I chose to take them out of school and keep them off school for 3 days it gave her the chance to apply for a retrieval order and then speed the process up into court.
The lawyer I was using advised me to sign the interim orders agreement otherwise risk seeing the girls on supervised visits because of my ex's allegations and so I didn't want to take that risk and signed it but also on the basis that this week there would be a chance to defend myself and try and get a fairer outcome.
Also I have decided to represent myself in family court - the same as my ex did at the initial hearing....
