Hi to All
I was hoping someone may be able to offer some advice, on how best to raise concerns I have about the ex wife's mental health issues, during family court proceedings that are currently underway.
I understand many before me may have used mental health issues as a strategy, or for non genuine reasons, this is not at all the case in this situation,
The opposite is true, I believe this may be a once in a life time opportunity to actually address the issue, and the world would be a far better place for our 3 children if it came to be.
An initiating application was filed by the ex in may 2017, at present I see the children every second weekend and every second Wednesday via interim parenting orders made at the first court mention,
There has been 5 mentions in total now, and a plethora of accusations and allegations have been made just prior to each time we attend, like extreme allegations.
The application began with ex wanting equal responsibility and a negotiable amount of time, wanted the children to live with her during week days for school, we live 15 mins apart, ex is in the family home as a result of a dvo,
It has now turned into a case ex is wanting sole parental responsibility (she wont get), a request to relocate 300km away, and a bunch of other pretty bizarre requests like 28 days notice prior, to provide ex with my intended plans during school holidays etc
ex has a barrister that is fairly efficient at making sure I don't get much of a voice during mentions, i am unrepresented and always on the back foot, the paperwork submitted is nothing short of overwhelming, nearly 300 pages of affidavit submit to date, amended initiating applications and all kinds of submissions and so on, pretty hard to compete with.
So the question is, how do I go about raising the fact that nothing being said is remotely true, I mean none of it, and everything said is due to a pretty significant case of what began as post natal depression when our first child was born in 2009, and only got worse during the course of 3 children over a 6 years period,
no significant event took place, our 11 year marriage simply deteriorated into being on some kind of bipolar type roller coaster ride, fuelled by a resentment issue of biblical proportions that comes and goes in waves.
Resulted in me having to leave in march last year, 2 months later family court began and here we are ?
Hopefully that's not all a bunch of useless information and someone is able to offer some kind of advice from what I have said.
ie; Do I make an application, write an affidavit, is there a certain form or procedure, do I tell the ICL ?
Thanks in advance
Regards
I was hoping someone may be able to offer some advice, on how best to raise concerns I have about the ex wife's mental health issues, during family court proceedings that are currently underway.
I understand many before me may have used mental health issues as a strategy, or for non genuine reasons, this is not at all the case in this situation,
The opposite is true, I believe this may be a once in a life time opportunity to actually address the issue, and the world would be a far better place for our 3 children if it came to be.
An initiating application was filed by the ex in may 2017, at present I see the children every second weekend and every second Wednesday via interim parenting orders made at the first court mention,
There has been 5 mentions in total now, and a plethora of accusations and allegations have been made just prior to each time we attend, like extreme allegations.
The application began with ex wanting equal responsibility and a negotiable amount of time, wanted the children to live with her during week days for school, we live 15 mins apart, ex is in the family home as a result of a dvo,
It has now turned into a case ex is wanting sole parental responsibility (she wont get), a request to relocate 300km away, and a bunch of other pretty bizarre requests like 28 days notice prior, to provide ex with my intended plans during school holidays etc
ex has a barrister that is fairly efficient at making sure I don't get much of a voice during mentions, i am unrepresented and always on the back foot, the paperwork submitted is nothing short of overwhelming, nearly 300 pages of affidavit submit to date, amended initiating applications and all kinds of submissions and so on, pretty hard to compete with.
So the question is, how do I go about raising the fact that nothing being said is remotely true, I mean none of it, and everything said is due to a pretty significant case of what began as post natal depression when our first child was born in 2009, and only got worse during the course of 3 children over a 6 years period,
no significant event took place, our 11 year marriage simply deteriorated into being on some kind of bipolar type roller coaster ride, fuelled by a resentment issue of biblical proportions that comes and goes in waves.
Resulted in me having to leave in march last year, 2 months later family court began and here we are ?
Hopefully that's not all a bunch of useless information and someone is able to offer some kind of advice from what I have said.
ie; Do I make an application, write an affidavit, is there a certain form or procedure, do I tell the ICL ?
Thanks in advance
Regards