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Hi
I was wondering if anybody can help me? I have a contact order to see my kids on a weekday one week, and a saturday the other week. However my ex wife has decided with only a week's notice to move 70 miles away and said I could have overnight contact every other week.
We are due to be go back to court in November and informed her we could discuss it then, but at the moment i would like to keep to the orginal order.
Does she have to stick to the original order, or can she just change it because she is moving away which is no fault of mine and this was not discussed when the order was drawn up in June.
Kind regards
Hi
Is the Contact Order defined?
If so the only way a Contact Order can be changed is via a Court..
The ex would have to go back to Court to get it changed..
The odd deviation from the terms of a contact order may be forgiven. Make sure you make a note of each occasion this happens. If it continues to happen then get a solicitor to send a letter reminding them of the terms set.
Does the contact order have a warning notice attached with it?
If you can clearly prove that they are failing to abide to contact order then a court can make an enforcement order.
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