Welcome to the DAD.Info forum: Important Information – open to read:
Our forum aims to provide support and guidance where it can, however we may not always have the answer. The forum is not moderated 24 hours a day, so If you – or someone you know – are being harmed or in immediate danger of being harmed, call the police on 999.
Alternatively, if you are in crisis, please call Samaritans on 116 123.
If you are worried about you or someone you know is at risk of harm, please click here: How we can help
OK, so its come to the point where it seems the same cycle is about to occur again.
I previously gave my ex a little credit on here for the fact that in the past year since restablishing contact with my son she has not missed a day, i will be soon forgetting i ever did.
However we are now going through the finalisation of our finances of divorce in which she is refusing to fill her form E correctly and disclosing information fully. Also, she made me aware she wants to take our son abroad but feels the need she has to be evasive with the information. I fear she is intending to leave indefinately and has refused to respond to my requests.
Last month she decided to write to the court complaining that i am breaching contact arrangements, which is a lie. This was thrown out by the judge and stated the contact order is to remain and she will have to apply for whatever she is requesting. I recieved a copy of this letter couple of days ago. I was completely unaware and it seems she is trying to get in to trouble for some reason or trying to stitch me up.
So in light of all of this, having returned my son to her at 6pm, she decided to threaten me by bringing our son late the following week because i am returning him late to the the police station. whilst she has my son returned to her in her arms i asked her to look at the time and i did too and it was 6.02pm. I told her to go away as she has nothing better to do.
I went home and sent her an email to clarify what she had said and to tell her threatening is not the way forward and she needs to stop being petty and grow up.
few hours later she is sending me photographs suggesting that my son has lots of cuts and bruises on his legs during my care and that i failed to inform her. i cannot tell if they are my sons legs or arms as they are really close up, some signs of bruises but no cuts. I was flabbergasted and shocked. i could not explain them because on my watch they never happened.
i bathed and changed my son before returning him and i check over him usually all the time and there was nothing to report and this is how i responded to her. He is 2.5 years old and i love him dearly would never harm him. I am still in shock as i feel that after she lost all credibility during the false allegations of sexual and domestic abuse in a fact find almost a year ago, now she is working to try and fabricate new allegation but along with fabricated proof. I dont know if these are my sons bruises, whether she did it herself and trying to plant it on me or if whether these are photographs she took over a period of time she collated. Either way the photos are not clear, they do not show my son but just extreme close ups. My son communicates well if he is hurt or is scared or if anything is hurting him and first thing he always does is ask for his daddy as i fix things for him and make him feel comforted and safe as fathers do and as mine did for me.
I am in the process of writing to the judge to request to reopen the case as she is refusing to tell me where she is taking him and have also now included she is attempting to stop contact by making new allegations against me. But i feel with this stuff going on in the background it is upsetting her and she is either trying to prevent my contact or stop it so she can go abraod, or she is doing it to try and prevent me from contuinuing with the finances. Either way she is not considering what is best for our child.
Either way i dont know what to do. I am concerned for my little boy as the worse is going through my mind that what if because she is angry, BITTER, and now my son who loves his time with me and my family and she sees this in him and is now taking it out on him ..i am feeling really lost and want to do something but dont know what to do and at wits end. I really feel she is out of her depths with our son and want to fight so he is in my care.
What can i do. Im slightly concerned she does go to social services and stop contact. i am not worried because the pictures are not clear but then again i do not know how social services percieve things, and the fact that her record will not stand up for her. I would like to believe it will back fire on her but i do not want to go through not seeing my child again and i do not trust the SS. I have though about going to the police and SS myself. Not sure what to do am in distress,,,,
It might be worth having a word with SS yourself, and see what they suggest, but hopefully others on here with more recent experience can help.
I would certainly make the court aware of your concerns that she might leave the country permanently, I think a prohibited steps order would be worth pursuing.
Welcome to the DAD.info forum.
We don’t like to set ‘rules’, but to make sure that you and the other dads are kept safe, we have some requests. When engaging with the forum, please be aware of the following:
- The forum is not moderated 24 hours per day.
- Many of the moderators do so on a voluntary basis. Whilst they may be able to provide some guidance, advice or support, they may not be able to deal with specifics.
- We are not an emergency crisis service so if you or someone else is in immediate danger, please call emergency services.
- If you are concerned about the safety of a child, please click here to find the support you can get for them (link to new page)
- If you are in crisis, please call Samaritans on 116 123. They are open 24 hours a day, 7 days per week.
We hope you find this forum a supportive environment and thank you for joining us.