Hello,
I have been divorced for 3 years and separated for 5. I would like to understand if there is anything I can do from a legal perspective about the current situation:
My ex-husband is very angry with me because while we have consent orders that cites 50:50 shared care and custody of children - in our 50:50 shared parenting arrangement that we have had in place for many years, I have not been able to adjust our plan to give him the specific days he wants to be kid-free.
At every possible opportunity he gets, he criticises me: tells me I am a bad/irresponsible/selfish, etc parent. He withholds information about some of our child's activities at school, he refuses to share costs for our child including costs for haircuts, extra shoes, extra curricular activities and specifically has stated in emails that he does this because of his personal grievance with me. I have been tolerating this ongoing emotional abuse for all these years.
Currently, I have asked him to agree to sign for a passport so I can take our son on a return trip overseas to a holiday destination with no flight risk at all involved. We have been to mediation earlier this year and while we couldn't agree, re his changes to the parenting plan, we did agree (at the time) that if either wanted a passport, the other would agree to sign for it and that I would pay to have the passport held in a co-signed box at the bank.
I have now followed through to ask him to sign for a passport application but he has refused saying it is simply because I have been unreasonable with his requests for a change to the parenting plan.
Is there any way I can prove the ongoing emotional abuse and does this hold any grounds from a legal point of view when it comes to finding a way to get a passport for my child? I am being blackmailed given that my ex-husband is holding me to ransom with the passport application until I give him the days he wants in our parenting plan.
Please provide any info you can.
With gratitude I await any replies and help or comments from others in similar cases.
I have been divorced for 3 years and separated for 5. I would like to understand if there is anything I can do from a legal perspective about the current situation:
My ex-husband is very angry with me because while we have consent orders that cites 50:50 shared care and custody of children - in our 50:50 shared parenting arrangement that we have had in place for many years, I have not been able to adjust our plan to give him the specific days he wants to be kid-free.
At every possible opportunity he gets, he criticises me: tells me I am a bad/irresponsible/selfish, etc parent. He withholds information about some of our child's activities at school, he refuses to share costs for our child including costs for haircuts, extra shoes, extra curricular activities and specifically has stated in emails that he does this because of his personal grievance with me. I have been tolerating this ongoing emotional abuse for all these years.
Currently, I have asked him to agree to sign for a passport so I can take our son on a return trip overseas to a holiday destination with no flight risk at all involved. We have been to mediation earlier this year and while we couldn't agree, re his changes to the parenting plan, we did agree (at the time) that if either wanted a passport, the other would agree to sign for it and that I would pay to have the passport held in a co-signed box at the bank.
I have now followed through to ask him to sign for a passport application but he has refused saying it is simply because I have been unreasonable with his requests for a change to the parenting plan.
Is there any way I can prove the ongoing emotional abuse and does this hold any grounds from a legal point of view when it comes to finding a way to get a passport for my child? I am being blackmailed given that my ex-husband is holding me to ransom with the passport application until I give him the days he wants in our parenting plan.
Please provide any info you can.
With gratitude I await any replies and help or comments from others in similar cases.