Help on disregarding court access - anyone got experiences?

[MeAndMyGirl]

Hi. My horrible expartner has taken me to court regarding access to DD. It is bullying tactic as he has been violent and manipulative throughout our relationship - he is putting pressure on me via our DD so I will agree to his unreasonable financial requests.

The child welfare report has recommended that he has supervised access to both monitor him and his attendance as he is so so unreliable. The judge will make final decision on Thursday but think it will go in his favour.

Basically I will be disregarding what the court will probably set about access and not put my DD through this - as I know he will let her down and I don't want her to feel that pain.

Has anyone else disregarded court ruling and what happened????

Any experiences would really help (sad)

won't put your daughter through what??
you might find yourself forced to by way of a penal notice.....or soe of the new options courts are about to get to make contact blocking parents coply.
if its supervised,will it be contact centre?her father might well have been violent,but if it was not aimed at her,then courts view is that its in childs best interests for father to be part of her life.
and this is coing fro someone who has escaped dv.

I'm also a family lawyer and second everything that Mrs Pickles has said. You must be very, very careful about disregarding a Court order. I have known cases where the mother has deliberately ignored Court Orders and refused Contact and she ended up losing the child and the father got residence.
The whole point of the contact being supervised is so that your ex can be assessed whilst he has contact with your DD and obviously if it is not working, or if he fails to attend and lets her down, this will be noted and it will be unlikely that he will get unsupervised contact in the future.
As pointed out above, the starting point is the welfare of the child and it is presumed in the first instance that the child should have contact with both parents. Please think carefully before you decide to ignore a Court Order.