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Brilliant advice, put away for when I need it..
had a call with the judge as she tried to add a further 3rd statement to my response in the scott schedule. this was 1 week before the FF.
to our disbelief the judge allowed her to add a extra 41 pages of evidence, ive got no time to respond. was also told the 1day FF can now be extended to 2-3 days. and cause huge delays due to the amount of extra evidence added, and i could get stuck in a contact centre longer. the original court order was not respected and followed by mother, and now she was also allowed to enter 16 allegations against me instead of the 7 specified in order. please additional evidence of [censored].
im trully been screwed over, the mother is running the trial my barrister said. i wont probably be able to afford to pay for a extra 2 days at FF.
i dont know why i bothered with all this, 90% of fathers have no chance.
hi,
if your going to struggle financially, what you could do is have barrister for 1st day of Fact finding. You will become familiar with the process and you have seen the admin work the barrister is doing for you. then you can scrap barrister and represent yourself for the remainder.
@bill337 I guess I could try self repping. But I probably won't be any good.
What would be the impact if I just gave up. I guess I can never see kids as I'm stuck in contact centre
@Vik2001You can get advice on how to self represent. Key is to stay calm and focused on the children. There is a guide on the AdviceNow website.
I think it's worth fighting to keep the children in your life and it's their right to have you in their life. think of it as short-term pain, long-term gain.
Had a great result today. At FF her barrister wanted to drop the case as they knew her case was weak and full of [censored]. So no findings were made against me. In the interim I get the kids every weekend. But I can't bring them home for first 4 weeks and have to stay around her area. After that they can come back to my house. Yayyyyy
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