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Hello,
I have posted a few times regarding my situation and its just getting worse now, I'm trying my best to keep this out of the courts but my partner is now stopping me from having my daughter overnight.
Can she legally do this? My house is now fully equipped for a child her age, she has a nursery and everything she needs to make it fun & safe.
I have done nothing wrong whatsoever that will impact whether i should be able to have her overnight. It was me that left her.
I asked to have her a few weeks back and she refused, I let her have that one as i appreciate that its going to be tough for her, But i have asked again and she is outright refusing to let me.
Has anyone experienced this before and if so is there anything i can do to help my situation.
Thank you in advance
Hi There,
Without a court order in place she can refuse the overnight and there isn't too much you can do I'm afraid.
If you wanted to take things through court then you would need to firstly attempt mediation.
Going through mediation doesn't mean that you have to go on to court, so it could be that you go to mediation and see how it goes, if you get things moving in the right direction then great, if not then you are a step nearer to court and you have that option open to you.
GTTS
As GTTS has said, you will have to attempt mediation as without a court order the mother can do what she likes.
Hopefully mediation will work for you both and you can move forward without applying to court.
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