Hi,
I have my first court date next thursday the 28th in the family court. Me ex currently has had no contact with our 9 month old baby for around 2 months due to him trying to run off with DS and then assaulting me while he was holding baby. My solicitor advised me no contact until there's a court order in place for him to return ds to me. My solicitor is unfortunately on annual leave next week so cant represent me, but he will be back on the Friday. He has asked my exes solicitor if we could request to postpone the hearing just for 1 day so I can be represented the same as he will be and he has refused. He is also refusing interim contact to take place in a contact centre, I have suggested this to reintroduce ds back to my ex as he is only months old and won't have seen my ex for 3 months by that time, plus there is a risk he won't return him if he had him by himself. But he has refused this aswell. I am thinking of ds here and his interests but he just seems to be interested in his own needs and not even thinking or caring how it might affect our baby me just handing him over to him after 3 months of no contact. It needs to be done gradual, I would also like to request he goes on a parenting course to learn more about caring for ds as my ex is literally clueless and has fully admitted he wouldn't know how to feed him (as in food), he has never bathed him in his life and also brings him back in dirty nappies claiming he didn't know. He has never handled a baby before ours and we broke up when ds was 2 weeks old. Does anyone know if this may be ordered by a court that he attends one of these courses?
Does anyone has any idea if a court might possibly postpone the firsr hearing without my exes consent? Just as there has been domestic violence incidents and I will find it completely intimidating me attending court alone and him armed with a solicitor.
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Postpone first family court hearing without consent
JoJo2106 · 21/06/2018 20:18
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