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Is this a reasonable request?

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Bobty123 · 17/05/2019 22:28

So me and my ex split up October of 2017 and every now and then she will try and use kids as weapon against me to get her own way.

Just a couple of weeks ago she turned up at my house when i had the kids, still drunk from night previous, saying she was taking the kids home, all because we had been arguing about me going to a friends wedding which fell on a weekend which is when i am supposed to have the kids.

I have had my kids every single weekend since we split unless has not allowed me to, i have never refused to have them, i asked about this 1 weekend to go see a friend get married and WW3 happened.

When she took the kids she was screaming at me that i would never see the kids again until i got an agreement written up and signed, so i did. I got an agreement written up and asked her to have a look to see if she was ok with it and get back to me with anything that she wasn't happy with.

One thing i asked for was for every 5 days i book off of work to have the kids, i asked her to allow me to have the option to have 1 day of a weekend. So i would book with her in advance a day on a weekend i wanted for myself and that would be 4 times a year. 4 days in a year. I have already booked off 21 days of holidays to have off with the kids.

I work sometimes over 50 hours in a week, friday finish work, home, change, pick kids up and then i would drop them off 7PM on a sunday, then back to work 5am Monday morning. She doesn't work.

So am i being unreasonable in asking for 1 day for me for every 5 days i book off of work?? And please, truthful answers.

She is now also refusing to allow me to take them away on holiday next year, gave me a range of reasons and excuses which kept changing. Would i be in the wrong in taking her to court to challenge this? Says because she has them more days than me that she decides what does and doesnt happen even though were both on birth cert.

Thanks

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kbPOW · 18/05/2019 11:04

She's being ridiculous, but the way you've explained the situation doesn't make very good sense. Since you only want to be able to go out occasionally and as it's perfectly reasonable to use a babysitter, I would try and get your current every weekend arrangement court ordered so that she cannot pull stupid stunts if you want to go out now ad again.

TeenTimesTwo · 18/05/2019 11:22

Wouldn't you just be better off to ask for every weekend except the 1st full weekend of the month? Then everyone knows where they are.
You get 3/4 (or 4/5 in a long month) with the kids but once a month you get the weekend to yourself. Much more straightforward.

Otherwise it reads a bit like 'I want them every weekend. But I want to be able to leave them with others , and I want time to myself too '.
Just build time to yourself and going out time into the basic agreement.

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