Posted on 30 days originally but also posting here for traffic.
We have been going through the family courts since the beginning of this year trying to get an existing child arrangement order amended to reflect the fact that XP moved away so could no longer have DC on school nights.
XP works in a job that means he can be moved around fairly often. However, he has been consistently saying since after the first hearing (June time) that he will be remaining in the local area on an indefinite basis but has never provided proof of this despite being asked. This lead to him asking for a school move so he could have 50/50 care but this was refused and he eventually agreed to every other full weekend from a Thursday.
Proceedings have been quite heated and prolonged for a number of reasons and they are still ongoing. This promise that he would remain in the area, and hence the amount of contact that was agreed, has actually turned out to be a lie and he actually moved to the other side of the country last week without giving anyone notice and without even saying bye to DC. This was communicated by way of a sudden u turn from his solicitor where he has conceded everything he was contesting. We know he would have had substantial notice of this move.
Had XP just been honest about this potential move from when he was made aware of it, the proceedings would likely have taken a very different course and it would have cost nowhere near as much.
I was just wondering if anyone had any experience of how we can possibly get some recourse for this or does this just not happen? It seems mad he can potentially get away with telling an enormous lie and costing me thousands of pounds.
There is obviously a huge back story and I have probably missed out massive chunks but I hope this at least makes some sense.