[Solved] Legally proving nights spent with Dad

... I remember we had a member, going back a few years, who needed to try and prove the number of nights the children stayed over, he made use of his smartphone to take photos of the children, ready for bed in their pjs, as phones record date and time on photos, he was able to show that they were staying over. I seem to remember he was successful.

How do you communicate, verbally or in writing? My ex was doing similar tricks and CMS wrote to say they were changing to her version of events, where I was supposedly having her less days, unless I had any evidence to the contrary.

She had separately emailed me stating that if I did not agree to some of her demands, we would keep to the X days arrangements that we have over the last two years(I was trying to get more). This confirmed what we had been doing and CMS took this as the evidence they needed and kept it as it was.

So she was the downfall of her own lies! Perhaps you have something that can be used or generate an email that could result in a similar response, where she accidentally confirms what you are actually doing.

Good luck.

Hi HRabbit,

Thanks for the words.
We only communicate in writting (I learned hard lessons in the first few months) so fortunately i do have multiple sources of emails / texts / whatsApp messages / excel spread sheets etc covering the time which I should be able to upload to the new CMS portal and ask them to check.

Its reassuring to hear that you got your case sorted this way .... inspriration to fight the good fight

Thanks Mojo, thats my plan of attack i think. CMS are going to have a lot of documents and attachments to sitf through 🙂

Hi Yoda94,

Thanks for the info and help.
Swallowing the bitter pill is what I fear

CMS have informed me that unless a successful appeal my financial side of the case will not be reviewed for 12 months.
I thought I had to have a 25% change (for better or good) in my net salary in order for a legitimate review to be undertaken?
Pension contributions can be upp'ed significantly by me, so its certainly worth unedrstanding better ....