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Court - how to respond

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octobersunshine · 20/07/2022 09:24

Cross posting for traffic.

Could do with some thoughts on how best to approach this.

Long story short, my son's dad has a habit of taking me to court for any miniscule difference in views. He wasn't involved in son's first three years of life. In the three years since he's taken me to court about eight times. He emails the judge so regularly its insane.

Anyway, we had a few back and fourths yesterday as he wanted to pull DS out of school due to the heat. I spoke to the school and they weren't concerned. I've looked back at the messages and objectively, he becomes increasingly vicious towards me calling me all kinds of things. I feel like I stay very dispassionate and calm.

About an hour later, he copies me into an email to the family court saying I've disrespected the order telling the court a pack of lies and using selected screenshots whilst not including others. I've got no doubt the two are linked. His ego is bruised because a woman didn't immediately do what he wants.

Half of me feels like rebutting his email in an email including the screenshots of messages he didn't include. I feel I've done nothing wrong and have nothing to do hide. But also Im loathe to lend legitimacy to this by responding because it happens so frequently. Should I respond or just wait to see if the court do anything?

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Whiskeypowers · 20/07/2022 09:28

I wouldn’t respond
just makes it look like you’re engaging in warfare
if it wasn’t safe for your son to en in school during the hot weather the school would have closed.

assuming you have him bang to rights in terms of a CAO?

SiempreDot · 20/07/2022 12:49

For what it's worth, I wouldn't bother either. Keep the messages and if the court get in touch with you, make a note of each point you dispute. Otherwise, as the previous poster says, you risk looking like your engaging in tit for that. Good luck!

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