Hi,
Can anyone provide some advice for me.
Does anyone know where I would stand being in contempt of not waiting for my ex partner to agree on who can privately assess our child?
My ex has it court ordered that I have to consult him/include him in choosing who undertakes an assessment on our child for additional needs.
I have provided a list of people to my ex that I have contacted about doing an assessment, if he doesn’t come back agreeing to someone in 7-10days I’m considering booking an appointment telling him who’s doing it, where and when etc but I would be in contempt of court if I done this. What is the judge likely to do/say if I don’t this?
Bit of background this is the 2nd time I’m having to find someone to do this assessment as the 1st person he agreed on (agreed roughly 8 weeks after I had given him the details of the drs) doing the assessment ex requested that solicitors wrote to the DR asking them to do the assessment. That DR came back and said they don’t take legal instructions so will no longer do the assessment so I’m now back to square one and having to provided another list of drs to my ex to consider as to who he will agree to doing an assessment. I don’t seem it in our child’s best interest to wait for another 7-8werks for him to agree to someone else when in that time our child could be being assessed and be able to access the help and support they so desperately need.
I feel he’s being obstructive to the assessment going ahead as we have a final hearing for a CAO and the judge will take any additional needs into consideration when making the CAO.
He has refused to pay towards the assessment saying he can’t afford to so I’m having to solely fund it which is fine as I want what’s best for our child.