The court has ordered us to come back for a full hearing about contact arrangement for DC. They confirmed that there are no safeguarding concerns and that the infrequent contact arrangements, offered by exH, are not acceptable. What happens now? Should I get some pro bono representation? What should I put in my Witness Statement? What will CAFCAS do?
Long story short: divorced now, separated a year ago and exH has been totally rubbish about contact with our 3 year old since we separated. He claims to want to b as involved with DC as he was when we were together yet refuses to make himself available and uses every attempt at communication as an opportunity to bombard me with accusations of abuse and preventing him from seeing DC, amongst other lies. He ignores my offers that he can have contact any evening, every other weekend etc etc. Mediation totally failed for us. I've given up trying to communicate with him and he's had little meaningful time with our DC for the last year (just 2 hours contact in almost 8 months even though he lives about a 5 minute walk from us). He's subjected me to all sorts of ridiculous, jaw-dropping things involving police, social services and endless accusations of abuse - it's all just a cruel, head-f**ck with total disregard for the impact on DC. So, I applied to court for an order to clarify things in the vain hope that he would finally step-up or admit that he doesn't want contact. He immediately began emailing me with times that he could have DC ( which I agreed) and started phoning her daily for a few weeks - this has now tailed off but didn't stop him from telling the court that he's been seeing DC frequently and phoning her daily but that he can't commit to more contact because of work....
I just want something frequent, consistent, stable and fair for our daughter and an end to all the nonsense.