First time poster but feeling very hopeless just wanting others perspectives and advice.
My son is 7 at school. He stays with me Mon-Fri then goes to his dads (my ex) Fri-Sun afternoon as he works Mon - Fri starting at 7.30am I work weekends. We've had this arrangement ever since school but now he's decided he wants to have DS an extra night on Wednesday. I've said I'm happy for the extra night (I'm not because with school and clubs I do feel like my time with him is so limited) but to try and keep the peace I said yes but can it be a Thursday or a Sunday so he's not swapping houses through the week. His response is no and that he's taking legal action as I'm unfair. I suspect the reason for wanting Wednesday is that it fits his social life.
My issue is he's very unreliable and changes things constantly and normally will forget his school bag Sunday meaning I'm constantly chasing to get her school books/uniform back when he's there. I've bought duplicates of everything and can just about handle the chaos of chasing/replacing once a week but with this extra day in the week will just mean chasing school stuff more. He gets all day every weekend with him to do fun stuff I make the best of the little time after school and clubs I have now this is leaving me with less.
Basically what I'm asking is if it goes down the legal route what's the likely outcome? Do I have any grounds to possibly say no to the extra night? or maybe yes to the extra night but not on the Wednesday? or is it possible I could have DS one weekend a month so I get the fun times to? (my works flexible) I'm at my wits ends with constant demands and changes and feel sorry for DS.