[Solved] Help! She's out to really get me

You don't have to fill in the C1a response, but I would advise that you make some comment, as you have downloaded the C7 acknowledgement of service, you can also fill that in and send both forms back to the court. There should have been instructions with the forms.

Its quite premature that she has included a statement with her application, I'm assuming it's a brief statement to give more details of the allegations made in the C1a?

When is the hearing?

Here's some info on writing statements, and a template.

www.thecustodyminefield.com/flapp/positionstatements.html

http://media.wix.com/ugd/69743a_6f5457e9a07b43ae9dcb67ef4be27cf2.docx?dn=Position%20Statement%20Template%20with%20questions.docx

www.thecustodyminefield.com/flapp/statement.html

www.mfjc.co.uk/home/mfjccou1/public_ftp/...ldren-March-2013.pdf

www.familylawquestions.co.uk/page9/page12/page19/

I would suggest that you prepare a position statement and take it with you to the hearing, have a copy for the other party and one for yourself and CAFCASS. Originals always go to the court for filing.

Did you receive the court paperwork from her solicitor or from the court? If from her solicitor I would also send them a copy of the C1a and C7.

I'd also be inclined to mention in your position statement that you would like the court to consider contact arrangements for the children, they will either agree to include that in the proceedings or will tell you to submit form C2, some courts will. Just take it on board, which will save you the fee.

If you do intend to submit a C2 make sure you ask for an interim order for contact, it will then be discussed, if it looks like they won't agree to it in the interim, push for it be in a contact centre until safeguarding checks can be done, you're arguement would be that no safeguarding issues were found during the recent CS involvement and they had no worries.

Thank you. Her solicitor has sent me a copy of her statement which she has put 32 individual allegations on and then a whole bunch of stuff on the last page. I've spent the last 3 days writing answers to every one of her allegations and finding all relevant texts, sending off for phots etc ready to hand to the court and her solicitor before the hearing next week - shouldn't I do this? Should I just do this position statement or do I do that along with the response to her statement? I really don't know what to do and I know its been said a million times before but how is any of this fair when I seriously haven't done a thing, least of all harm my kids? I have no idea what I'm doing and even less idea of why I'm having to try. I don't know how anyone gets through this.

Is the hearing next week a combined non mol and PSO? How many pages has her statement got?

Hi, Next week is the non mol, the pso is in Feb. Her statement has got 6 pages

Ah ok that's not too bad, how long is yours up to now?

Mine is about 8 .!

...the court won't consider Child Arrangements at the non mol, you do need to answer to the allegations made in the non mol, so stick to your plan, use the template and bullet points to answer her statement, refer to the evidence in your statement that you intend to use, reference it with your intials and number.
For example, the first piece of evidence you refer to would be ABC1, the second ABC2 and so on. So you would say something like.... please see the attached screenshot of the text, (ABC1).

As far as your counter application, ask at the non mol if Child Arrangements can be discussed, it's likely they will say no, so ask if it can be included in the PSO hearing.... I'm just running your situation past a collegue, waiting on a reply.

Mine is about 8 .!

8 pages isn't too bad, you're doing fine.

Thank you very much, I feel a bit more like I'm on the right track now then. so I just carry on with what I'm doing i.e. respond individually to each and every one of these points in her statement, add the evidence, get it all to Court and her brief 48 hours before the hearing and in the meantime send C1a response form and C7 in. Just wonder the solicitor said to submit a C2? Should I do that do you think - that's about the only thing he did say for the weeks wages he charged me for his 70 minutes of pointless blah blah blah. I am terrified about all this, not going to ty and pretend I'm not! Also sorry but on the C1a she has made 8 allegations but there's only room for me to respond to 5, any ideas please? I am so grateful to have someone to actually ask who can give me answers, thanks so much

Colleague agrees, you may as well respond in full and attach all the evidence you have, as this is what you'll be asked to do anyway... unless you want to delay in which case, don't file it and at the hearing you'll be asked to provide a statement to respond and a date to file it by. Personally, I think it's better to get on with it.