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Contact with my daughter broke down on december 21st last year. Last saturday another visit with my daughter has not been complied with by the mother so now i am thinking of an enforcement order. Just to recap the mother stopped contact dec 21st due to alleged messages sent via fb to somebody not involved or even related to myself or my daughter or the situation. This is still ongoing, the police have been involved and have not contacted me for 3 weeks as it has not been resolved, the CPS are yet to make a decision if it is serious enough to press charges. It is nothing horrific, just alleged nasty messages
I am here today to seek advice on weather i should got for an enforcement order, i have looked into it and it does state a judge will only enforce the order if he is beyond any reasonable doubt the mother is in genuine breach. the mother can produce evidence from texts and facebook conversations that there has been alot of conflict between us and he may side with her, and if that happens the case gets quashed, i dont see my daughter for another 3 months as i will have to file a new order and start from scratch and the mother goes away laughing. Yes there is evidence i have been a pain in the [censored], but like i have said many many times, no threats and no abuse towards my daughter or the mother, and i have attended all court arrange sessions at the contact centre. Contact was stopped on dec 21st, on feb 6th there would have been 3 unprovoked breaches, i have also attended 2 counselling sessions this past two weeks at £60 per hour, and have another 6 booked up for the forth coming weeks so i think i have a good case.
Since contact was stopped on Dec21st, i have not made much contact with the mother or her family, once or twice a week i have text to offer money and asked for contact to resume but i have had no reply, i am now mediating through the contact centre lady who is being very helpful. I have also emailed the mother a letter asking for contact to resume and invited her to mediation at which i had no reply. the reason for the texts and the letter is so i can show court i have tried to make steps to resolve it without asking for another hearing
So, shall i go for an enforcement order or shall i start from scratch with a c100, be cruel to me, be kind, be whatever you want as i need honesty..
Thank you
My opinion is that you go for enforcement - she is simply in breach of the order, and you are losing contact. Definitely keep off social media and the only contact you have with her is occasional texts concerning possible contact. You definitely do not want an online slanging to be brought in front of the court.
alleged messages? did you send or not?
i would rather not say as it is being decided by the CPS what they are going to do.
There has been two sets of messages sent via fb that have contributed to this, one lot to the mother the other lot to a third party unrelated to my situation.
So lets hypothetically i did send the messages to the mother, the ones she gave to the police dated back to september octoberlast year, no threats just going on and being a pain. I have seen my daughter 3 times since those messages to the mother were allegedly sent and have even seen the mother in person, i had paid a £1000 csa also, but i was told in family court she can use messages that date back from anytime. The message which has ultimately been my downfall was quite threatening and pretty nasty but was not at all related to my daughter or this situation. My daughters uncle just so happened to bump into the person who i was meant to have sent this message to and he stepped in and stopped all contact, the mother is just following orders.
Firstly, CSA/CMS have no bearing on contact.
The reason I ask is I seem to recall a string on threads from you asking for help, being aggressive, then asking for help. NOw it seems you have contact but have started that again? or its past stuff, I cant tell.
But I do hop you get a decent relationship with your daughter, she deserves that, but I also hope you learn to behave.
I would try for enforcement but you really need to stop sending messages when told not to. It's likely,( although this will depend on what your ex is able to evidence to the court), that you will get a hearing listed but it's going to be very difficult for a judge to enforce contact with the current and previous circumstances you have told us about on the forum.
Good luck
so if the judge cant enforce it what do i do then,??.
do i make a new application or do i just lose my daughter??
hi twiston,
what is CMS??
The messages to the mother were from last october and september i did state that, and i also stated the reason why contact had stropped was alleged messages to a third party who is not even involved with my daughter or the situation, its just the mother got wind of it and using it as ammo. Also the reason i mentioned paying £1000 csa is not because i think it give me the right to get contact, i mentioned it because she took a £1000 off me and met me in person but the messages she reported to the police pre dated that, so im confused at why the judge would take messages into consideration when i had seen my daughter and the mother 3 times since. sorry if im sounding confusing
so if the judge cant enforce it what do i do then,??.
do i make a new application or do i just lose my daughter??
Thats not what was said.
Of course a judge can enforce. If as you say these third party messages have no threats or info about such matters in there then they probably will enforce or warn her. Because they would be irrelevant and unrelated to stopping contact, I do feel like they might be sinister considering youve mentioned CPS?
However it needs to be reasonable. If she had just stopped. Then enforce. If stopped because making threats - I dont know, say hypothetically, Im going to not return child, Ill break your nose.
A reasonable judge would not enforce in such circumstances.
You may know I now have an order, I know my ex wants me to call her a coniving [censored] - but I wont! Because then she'll be searching for reasons.
I dont understand, are you saying that you know CMS/CSA arent linked to contact but you're confused she took £1000 off you then stopped contact?
Hi twiston
Thanks for replying as it does mean and help alot.
I can of get the feeling you dont understand what i am saying..i was invited to a police station on 2nd of jan to be question about two separate incidents concerning facebook messages sent to the mother of my daughter and a third party person.
The messages i have been accused of sending to the third party are threatening, but i dont get how contact could be allowed to stop as they were nothing at all to do with my daughter, my daughter was not mentioned in the messages, my daughter was not at all implicated, the messages that ultimately stopped contact were a separate matter all together and not at all linked to my daughter or her family in any way.
the messages that the mother of my daughter showed the police that she was getting me done for dated back to last oct sept, since last oct/sept i have seen my daughter 4 times and paid a £1000 csa, so i dont get how those messages from last oct/sept could stand in a family court if i have seen my daughter 4 times, seen the mother in person once and had a £1000 taken off me
i have not been arrested or charged and not heard back from the CPS yet.
all i was asking was not advice on the above but what shall i do in court, go to enforce it or start a c100 from scratch
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