Hi and thanks in advance for any info.
I would like to know what is considered as serious psychological harm please. As a background:
I have received initiating application affidavit and subpoena copies for a family law case. Ex is seeking permanent and interim orders of full care and parental rights. Children are 2, 7, 10. Parenting plan currently has him with per fortnight: 5 nights for the eldest two kids and 2 nights for the youngest.
He left as a trial just before our youngest's first birthday and permanently just before xmas 2017 (just over 12m ago). Parenting plan has been in place since Mar 2018. Jan and Feb of 2018 I "withheld" overnights with bub (1yr at time) on legal advice and negotiated to the current arrangement at mediation with the view to 50/50 at some point in the next few years. The withholding of overnight visits led to huge ego conflict, lists of his refusal to cooperate and.arguing in front of the kids every time I went to collect her. His parents regularly stop the kids from seeing me at handover and contacting me. Now he is claiming that the kids are at risk due to exposure to family violence and has made up a huge stack of claims of supposed abusive behaviour from me as a result of my post natal depression (which my Dr cleared 12 months after our first child). He claims my mother is a risk (lives interstate). He claims I withhold medical treatment (daughter had been on laxatives for 12 months, gradually reducing) when the fact is he is giving meds on his weekends despite the GP and OT advising they are no longer needed.
His affidavit is riddled with lies including statements about our kids being admitted to hospital for malnutrition my (non existent) psychological diagnosis, me "doctor shopping" (I have evidence we have only ever seen 1 GP).... the list goes on.
Thanks for reading this very long back story. I feel silly writing all that has gone on. Such a juvenile situation!
I would like to know what is considered as serious psychological harm please. As a background:
I have received initiating application affidavit and subpoena copies for a family law case. Ex is seeking permanent and interim orders of full care and parental rights. Children are 2, 7, 10. Parenting plan currently has him with per fortnight: 5 nights for the eldest two kids and 2 nights for the youngest.
He left as a trial just before our youngest's first birthday and permanently just before xmas 2017 (just over 12m ago). Parenting plan has been in place since Mar 2018. Jan and Feb of 2018 I "withheld" overnights with bub (1yr at time) on legal advice and negotiated to the current arrangement at mediation with the view to 50/50 at some point in the next few years. The withholding of overnight visits led to huge ego conflict, lists of his refusal to cooperate and.arguing in front of the kids every time I went to collect her. His parents regularly stop the kids from seeing me at handover and contacting me. Now he is claiming that the kids are at risk due to exposure to family violence and has made up a huge stack of claims of supposed abusive behaviour from me as a result of my post natal depression (which my Dr cleared 12 months after our first child). He claims my mother is a risk (lives interstate). He claims I withhold medical treatment (daughter had been on laxatives for 12 months, gradually reducing) when the fact is he is giving meds on his weekends despite the GP and OT advising they are no longer needed.
His affidavit is riddled with lies including statements about our kids being admitted to hospital for malnutrition my (non existent) psychological diagnosis, me "doctor shopping" (I have evidence we have only ever seen 1 GP).... the list goes on.
Thanks for reading this very long back story. I feel silly writing all that has gone on. Such a juvenile situation!