Time spent with and travel

[MumandSon05]

Hello,

I'd like to know if anyone has experience of a court ordering that collection and drop off be father's responsibility?

I'm going through the court process atm, and it's not been easy as there are concerns over drinking and domestic abuse at his end.
I do get the feeling cafcass are going to reinstate contact regardless.

If that's the case, I'd like to propose that the driving is his responsibility. (Well, that of his girlfriend as he's currently serving a DD ban)
He lost his job due to his ban, however back when contact was still happening, I too lost my job due to the pandemic, yet still had the costs of a 2 hour round trip. He ceased all CMS payment in March 2020. He's still receiving benefits although he's been working self employed since Jan 2021. Purely to avoid any CMS.

Would it be reasonable to request this? And likely to be granted?

Who moved away?

It’s usually the person who moved away that has to facilitate contact - but if he can’t drive; that might change things. I can’t see a court requiring his girlfriend to drive - for a start they could split up at any time, but also, she has no legal responsibility for your children.

If you moved away, I think your chances of having this ordered are slim.

We moved. He'd turn up on my doorstep being verbally abusive and damaging to my property when we lived local. Plus he told me on numerous occasions to move back to my hometown.
In the end we did.

I know the courts don't get involved with maintenance etc, and this aspect is very small in the scope of the whole set of issues.

I just know that there is too much third party accusations against him to get us a favourable outcome, so we'll return to fortnightly visits.

Given he's deliberately hiding his income to prevent him paying CMS, I feel it's almost the final insult, that I'm back to paying for his time with our son.