Child care eow

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I hate posting in aibu for other topics but I need advice please! My friends boyfriend is currently threatening her to take her to court to only have her child eow. He currently has the the child weekly but has 'other arrangements such as golf'. Can he do this? Does she have a leg to stand on? The child has sen so mother really needs that one night a week to organise ect /he does pay cms but a miminal amount. Thank you for any replys

Unfortunately a court cannot force him to have the child at all. If he chooses not to then they can’t make him .

I mean technically yes he can but he can also just refuse to take his own child full stop

Yes he can dictate when he's available for contact.

What a dick. Sadly, the law is not on your friends side. A court cannot force him to have the child at all, let alone weekly. They can force your friend to facilitate access though.

The court doesn’t really work like this - it doesn’t tell people to have the child more, it says to make the child available. So it won’t force either person to do more iyswim - but if the nrp doesn’t collect the child then the rp is stuck with the situation.

Would it be sensible for him to have their child eow and a night in the week? Then they both get some quality weekend time.

Nothing to be done to force contact. It absolutely sucks but that is the reality

Yep echoing all the other comments - a court cannot force a NRP to have more contact if they don't want it

Yeah, Court only awards contact where one parent approaches for contact, there’s no process for them to force contact.

One day a week isn’t a lot, but the system is usually base’s around both parents having some weekend time

*based