I got a response affidavit filed by my ex's lawyer today along with notice of risk. The notice of risk alleges verbal, emotional, physical, psychological abuse. The affidavit along with annexures is 46 pages long. Lot of allegations and twisted facts (my sms) are present there. Orders I am seeking was 50/50 and my ex wife is seeking sole parental custody with supervised contact for 2 hrs per fortnight.
I am very much confused and devastated as to how I will proceed and if I did mistakes when filing my initiating application.
When I was filing an initiating application (interim and final orders), I had a limit of 10 pages for affidavit and 5 pages for annexures. Now I can see that the response affidavit does not have any such restrictions. Did i misunderstand something or did something wrong? To keep it concise to 10 pages and 5 annexures, I had left out lot of things.
Please help me. I am in the process of filing another affidavit as part of application in a case to put my daughter's name in Family watchlist. I do not want to make same mistakes I did. Do I still have restrictions on number of pages for the affidavit? Any other thing I should be careful about.
The email to negotiate/settle now looks purely a fishing expedition