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Hopefully someone can help or let me know I'm barking up the wrong tree here!
Essentially We have a live with court order in place that accounts for 102 nights, regular every other Fri/Sat/Sun and School Term holiday arrangements and I'm fighting for 50/50. my current predicament is the children regularly stay over when agreed between both parties probably another 10-15 nights a year hitting the 104 threshold.
I have reported this change to the CMS however their mother is saying this doesn't count as its "ad-hoc" surely if they stay over extra agreed nights this has to be accounted for by CMS? additional info there has been two years of set extra nights agreed but she is stating its not in the order so doesn't count
any help appreciated as i don't want this dragging on for months awaiting the CMA process
hi, if you go back to court for 50/50, have to explain how it benefits the kids. if they think the current arrangement works well, they may not order 50/50.
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