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Ex partners Solicitor not sending over statement

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Pebbledashery · 22/02/2021 12:27

Hi all.
Need some advice. Going through the family court with my ex partner, there are multiple safeguarding concerns and it was high level domestic violence that my daughter and I fled from. At our last hearing both Counsels agreed that our statements should be struck out and we should resubmit and base our statement around our 3 allegations in our schedule of allegations. We have an upcoming fact finding later in the year.
The deadline for our statements was early last week.. My statement was submitted on the day and sent across to the other side. It is a very strong statement that is backed up with multiple amounts of evidence..
My ex partners Solicitor has not sent his statement across yet a week later.. We both have to respond to each others statements by next week.. I've asked my solicitor to chase up but she's being ignored by them. I feel this is a very under handed tactic which means I will not have enough time to write a quality response. My exes solicitor has also done things like.. Sending across the bundle at the eleventh hour, purposely leaving out my statement and evidence from the bundle so that my solicitor has had to prepare a supplementary bundle. Is there anything that I can do? They are so underhanded and I'm getting so frustrated.

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pabgdl · 24/02/2021 15:28

Some advice needed please, one of my female friends was falsely accused of child abuse of her 5 year old son back in October 2020, by her ex partner, they are not married, her son has lived with her since birth and has had regular contact with his father, the accusation was proved unfounded by the police and social services and a court order was applied for by both parties the court order states that she only has visitation rights now, Cafcass and social services have closed the case but the original court order is still in place, she has since had two hearings and is due another on the 26 March 2021, her son is being held against his will as he never wants to return to his father on the day she has him which is one day a week, she has many videos of him crying and not wishing to return to his father, her voice and her child’s voice is not being heard, my concern is what harm is his father doing to the child if the child doesn’t want to be with his father, surely the court needs to act before it gets worse

Pebbledashery · 24/02/2021 15:42

@pabgdl this sounds horrible :( I hope you get advice.
I would maybe suggest creating a new thread in Legal so you can get definitive answers.
Your friend needs to speak to her Solicitor also.

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Skeptadad · 24/02/2021 20:52

Yeah, my ex sent through her allegations 10 days late and left me 1 working day to respond in time. I had to work all over the weekend almost without rest. Nothing happens. I suspect filing stuff late carries no consequences. It enables game playing without penalty.

Hopefully Crazycatlady83s response will work out for you!

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