Thanks for your advice everyone. We are similar in that we do not request any deviations and neither does the mother currently. We generally have a problem with the mother misinterpreting the orders if anything.
My partner had his interim hearing yesterday and it went much better than expected. The judge could not understand why the mother was refusing contact with the child. The hearing was mainly targeted at her. She made the mistake of referring to a text message she sent my partner about giving the child the option to take prescribed medication, and it all kind of went down hill for her then. Once the judge finally asked why my partner had requested new orders, and my partners pointed the judge to the child's school attendance records (stating that the child had missed 71 full days of school since 26th May last year), he got really serious and kept saying to the mother that he was really concerned.
He has reinstated our shared care orders and ordered the mum to take the child to school.
He gave both parents the option of shared care for now until more investigations could be done. Because the mother refused the judge has reserved his judgement to a date to be advised. He told us he would go through all the evidence submitted in both parents affidavits and contact us hopefully within two weeks with his decision.
This did not happen last time, we were always notified of the outcome on the day. I hope this may be a good sign he is considering our interim request of 11days per fortnight, but at the moment, were just happy to finally see the little one again and return to some kind of normality!!
