Hello,
My fiance's daughter Amy is 7 and he has had her in his care Thurs through to Sunday morning since separation which was over 18 months ago. Initially they had agreed to an equal care arrangement but a couple of months into it she changed it to Thurs to Sunday. He has a written document that she signed when they seperated agreeing to 50/50 and has texts to show when she changed it.
Since November last year we have been embroiled in a custody issue. Mediation was august of 2017 and she refused to go back in December of 2017 instead choosing the court route of getting a family report. We haven't spoken to the family report writer yet and we're due back in court in November. We've recently discovered that she's filed for a subpoena for his medical records from 3 years ago to try and substantiate her claims of his mental instability and trying to proove he's an unfit parent. In his affadivt he provided a discharge document of his time spent seeing a psychologist for the living with pain program which was very positive. Since doing the program at the end of 2016 he's been off all pain medication and has found a new career as a child educator. It's important to note that while he was injured and not working he was Amy's primary carer for 2 years whilst she worked. The medical records she has issued a subpoena for was during this time which I feel contradicts her claims of fear that he is a mentally unstable and unfit parent.
He and I attend parent teacher interviews are involved with school and do homework tasks weekly. We go halves in all medical and have paid and booked all of Amy's psychology appoinments. Her mother rarely attends and has only contributed financially to 3 out of the 11 appointments so far. Amy and my son (who is 5) have a very strong bond and see eachother as brother and sister. We also have a new addition to our family and he's now 7 months old. Both Amy and my son adore their little brother.
The reason behind the psychology appointments was initially started by the mother and we have continued with it to help support Amy with the major adjustment of her parents separation and in adjusting to the arrival of her brother. Her mother is recently engaged and pregnant and we feel the ongoing psychology appointments would be beneficial to support this new adjustment.
His ex is seeking time be reduced to 3 nights a fortnight, friday to monday morning. This is through her claims that Amy isn't coping with the current arrangement and that my partner is being emotionally and psychologically abusive. She has made claims from their 10 year marriage of emotional and verbal abuse and has outwardly lied and twisted facts to suit her adgenda.
What are the chances of a 50/50 arrangement?
My fiance's daughter Amy is 7 and he has had her in his care Thurs through to Sunday morning since separation which was over 18 months ago. Initially they had agreed to an equal care arrangement but a couple of months into it she changed it to Thurs to Sunday. He has a written document that she signed when they seperated agreeing to 50/50 and has texts to show when she changed it.
Since November last year we have been embroiled in a custody issue. Mediation was august of 2017 and she refused to go back in December of 2017 instead choosing the court route of getting a family report. We haven't spoken to the family report writer yet and we're due back in court in November. We've recently discovered that she's filed for a subpoena for his medical records from 3 years ago to try and substantiate her claims of his mental instability and trying to proove he's an unfit parent. In his affadivt he provided a discharge document of his time spent seeing a psychologist for the living with pain program which was very positive. Since doing the program at the end of 2016 he's been off all pain medication and has found a new career as a child educator. It's important to note that while he was injured and not working he was Amy's primary carer for 2 years whilst she worked. The medical records she has issued a subpoena for was during this time which I feel contradicts her claims of fear that he is a mentally unstable and unfit parent.
He and I attend parent teacher interviews are involved with school and do homework tasks weekly. We go halves in all medical and have paid and booked all of Amy's psychology appoinments. Her mother rarely attends and has only contributed financially to 3 out of the 11 appointments so far. Amy and my son (who is 5) have a very strong bond and see eachother as brother and sister. We also have a new addition to our family and he's now 7 months old. Both Amy and my son adore their little brother.
The reason behind the psychology appointments was initially started by the mother and we have continued with it to help support Amy with the major adjustment of her parents separation and in adjusting to the arrival of her brother. Her mother is recently engaged and pregnant and we feel the ongoing psychology appointments would be beneficial to support this new adjustment.
His ex is seeking time be reduced to 3 nights a fortnight, friday to monday morning. This is through her claims that Amy isn't coping with the current arrangement and that my partner is being emotionally and psychologically abusive. She has made claims from their 10 year marriage of emotional and verbal abuse and has outwardly lied and twisted facts to suit her adgenda.
What are the chances of a 50/50 arrangement?
