Help on parenting rights

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I’m hoping someone can help as I’ve been desperately trying to get legal advice or guidance for a while now, my ex/child’s father legally has no obligation to pay child maintenance, reason is low earnings so I’m entitled to zero to help support our child, with this being said our child lives with me and sees dad once/to twice a month over night, I’ve amicably for a long time met him half way as we live some distance apart an hour and a half approximately ,I’m financially struggling to do this now…I don’t feel it’s unreasonable for him to collect and drop off our child from my home but am I within my rights to not do this journey anymore?
nothing legally binding so far, just verbal.
Im a single mum working but with no help financially from him, am I within my rights to not do that journey anymore?

thanks

Who moved?

generally, it is the person who moved sway’s job to facilitate contact. So if you moved, it’s on you, if he moved, he needs to start picking her up.

when you say no help, aren’t you eligible for UC etc?

Hi, so we lived in a different area together, when we split a few years ago he moved back to his home town and a year later I moved out of our home and did the same and moved home, we were never married, only ever a verbal agreement but this was if he helped me financially and if he didn’t then I wasn’t to do the journey
when he moved then me it meant we are further away, being he sees our child once to twice a month and doesn’t financially help it’s tough

yes UC I get help with but just for my property, I’m not left with any spare as it were,

I think I that you are within your rights to stop but would it mean that he doesn't see your DC anymore

If it's legal advice that you need, try reposting in the legal section or you could call Rights of Women.

Thankyou for this, I will
he can see our child if he does the journey, it’s very irregular and has been for a while as he cancels or reschedules a lot

Who told you he doesn't have to pay CM? Even on benefits they usually have to pay something

I was shocked too but I called CM and received a letter from them saying amount to pay £0, he’s self employed and CM even told me it’s a major loophole where people can avoid paying, sadly I don’t get any help from him and as you say I’ve heard of people paying even if on JS so I don’t understand it, CM said they will re assess in September

Given he contributes zero financially and hardly sees his child I don't think it's too much to ask that he does the travelling. If he has an issue with that he can take you to court (doubt he'll make the effort to do that).

@Illpickthatup yes I agree, I’ve kept up the journey for a very long time to keep the peace but I’m met with resistance and zero support, unreliability every step of the way, I’ve just not wanted to get in trouble by not meeting half way…and on the other hand I’m not entitled to help from CM so I struggle to do these journeys and as you say I feel I no longer should feel obligated to do them, I try and keep the peace but I’m not met with any respect in return sadly

You've done more than enough. You finance everything, do 95% of the childcare, 100% of the child admin. He's is not even doing the bare minimum and paying for his child.