Experience with enforcement order hearing in the family court?

[Iamvictorio]

Hi! Anyone here with experience of going through enforcement order hearing through the family courts, please? Did it turn into a variationbof the order? My DD is 14yo and avoiding contact with dad; making excuses/refusing to visit every week/making other plans; dad appliedfor enforcement order.

I have professional experience not personal but my experience is that the court are very unlikely to compell a child of that age to maintain a relationship she doesn't want to.
Will depend on the outcome of the assessment done by CAFCAS
Why doesn't she want to see him? You will be expected to encourage her to have contact with him and try and help her develop a relationship with him but ultimately you can't force her can you?
Mediation might be better if possible?

Realistically there is little you can do to force her at that age without it having long term negative outcome.

At 14, it is very unlikely she’d be forced to continue contact if she doesn’t want it. She will be interviewed by Cafcass and her wishes and feelings taken into account. He’s not really helping himself here is he? Rather than step back and take the pressure off, he’s gone the nuclear route. She’s old enough to make her position clear.

Thank you for your reply. I do encourage the relationship and I even advised father of how to communicate with her to improve their relationship, but because DD had witnessed too much verbal abuse from father towards his wife, DD is afraid father will one day attack her; she is afraid of expressing who she is in front of him and doesn't feel comfortable at his place. She is avoiding going to see father so much that he applied for enforcement of the order.

Thank you for your reply. That is my thought, exactly.
After father applying for enforcement, my DD, knowing that we will be back to court, got even more upset and frustrated towards her father, to the point that she stopped replying his messages. He even said to her that for each day missed, he wanted her to re-schedule days for them to be together. This made her avoid him even more.