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How far can they take this?

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Juststopamoment · 10/12/2019 18:00

I’ve stopped my kids seeing their paternal gps. When I split up with their father they went completely bonkers and accused me a number of times of assault to social services, the police and people I know. They followed me to school drop off while being verbally abusive to me in front of the kids and that resulted in me being interviewed by police over another false allegation of assault. Their son died and he left the children out of the will. Obviously a way to take any control of the money away from me. Money put in trust but wouldn’t tell me anything about it. His father told me that they only way we were going to get the money left over from the estate was that we would have to ask them for it every time and they would then take them out to buy it for them. I cut off all contact and other than receiving a very small pension from their father’s company (less than £50 combined) they didn’t get anything else.

I also had two court orders against them. One against their son; the other against his mother (paternal gp)

Now they have sent a Solicitors letter saying they want to see the children.

My question is that can they actually take me to court and win? Apart from the fact I don’t have the money to go to court; would a court actually force me to do this considering the past history?

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Juststopamoment · 06/01/2020 14:33

MelissaD10 did it then go to court? I what happened? I really can’t believe that going by past behaviour of these gps they would be granted anything. I suspect they are trying mediation because they know it can’t get to court and them being successful relies on my cooperation.

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prh47bridge · 06/01/2020 16:11

I suspect they are trying mediation because they know it can’t get to court

I suspect they are trying it because, as Collaborate says, they can't take it to court unless they have tried mediation first. If they take it further it will go to court. That doesn't mean the court will give them leave to apply for contact. Even if they get leave that doesn't mean the court will give them contact. But whether or not it goes to court is up to them. No-one will stop them from taking it to court if that is what they want.

Juststopamoment · 06/01/2020 19:28

Ok thanks prh47bridge. I understand. I don’t intend to participate in mediation and I’ll have to see what they do next.

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MelissaD10 · 06/01/2020 21:21

It did go to court unfortunately yes. It wasn’t a good experience, all over now thankfully but very stressful.
We had a solicitor and were advised to attend the miam the first mediation meeting to explain our side to the mediator. And it was them who said mediation wasn’t suitable in this case and it went forward onto a court case x

Juststopamoment · 06/01/2020 21:32

Thanks for letting me know MelissaD10. If you don’t mind could you PM me as to what the outcome was? Completely understand if you don’t want to.

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