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Withholding child contact

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Frogslegs3 · 04/07/2024 13:02

Hi

I left my home with our children mid June as my husband was violent towards me. I brought our children back for Father’s Day so my husband could see them (FIL was present as third party). He hasn’t seen them since. He’s sending me messages daily saying how much he misses them.

He refuses to move out of the family home and says I’m welcome back there at any time. Just after it happened he was apologetic but in the weeks since he denies any ‘unfounded allegations’ of what happened.
HE now has a solicitor and wants contact every single weekend. My solicitor wrote back that we will not support that but we would be willing to go to mediation to find a solution. In the interim I feel bad that my husband hasn’t seen his children. Even though he is an awful person (at times). It’s been close to 3 weeks since he last saw them. It’s going to be 5 weeks to our MIAM at a minimum. Then first proper mediation longer than that. I don’t feel it’s fair for him or our children to wait that long. Thoughts?

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