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Hello Guys,
Not sure what to do!
There is a court order in place for supervised contact from the court to see my son every week. However everything went well until few weeks now and now the ex has blocked my number and is not responding to any of my texts, calls or emails to confirm contact.
Not sure what to do. Can anyone advice? How to proceed?
I go back to court next month somepoint in order to review few months of supervised contact. The 2 contact I have had last month had beautiful reports from the contact centre rep.
Look forward to hearing from you all.
Thanks.
Hi There,
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I would say that as there is an order in place and the case is still ongoing, I would write to the judge and ask them to assist, they should be able to help sort this out.
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I would also say that what your ex has done won't help her at all at the next court visit as the judge won't look too kindly at that.
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GTTS
Unfortunately my experience of an ex ignoring court orders seems to mirror many guys experiences, i would have to guess that whatever went off the other week is the reasoning your ex will use for stopping contact.
As GTTS says write to the court manager and FAO the Judge in your case, explain what has happened and that you request the hearing be brought forward urgently for new directions.
Regarding the contact centre is it one where they make a report out? If not i know they’ll probably not write an official report or statement saying how contact has gone but its is worth just asking if they are able to do so…..they will want to be neutral and won’t want to get involved so don’t pin your hopes on it.
But make your own notes of the events and how contact has been going and your ex stopping it will not look good for her.
Careful what you text to your ex, if possible try not to text or message / phone etc… as she could potentially try the old “he’s harassing me” route then you will have many problems fighting that one….these ex’s seem to get protection and able to make any lies up they want to force you back in to line (under their control) again.
In the first instance have a word with the contact centre manager see if they can contact your ex to start contact again, the manager did for me which saved me contacting her and her doing me for bothering her.
If that fails write to the judge as I did, my ex ignored the court order to have supported contact at the CC and they had her straight back in court she played ball after that.
The judge won't be happy with the ex at all for stopping contact as they see it as very upsetting for the child and they don't like mothers ignoring orders at all.
Don't fret this can and will be sorted out sooner or later you've just got to stick in there as Dadid said be very very careful when contacting the ex as she can still get a non mol whacked on you make all communication through a 3rd party.
Good luck man and keep going 🙂
Slim 🙂
I agree with all those replies.
I would definitely speak with the contact centre and also consider writing to the judge asking for urgent new directions before the next hearing in light of the current order being ignored. It is at the discretion of the judge but always worth a try....
Good luck.....
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