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hi everyone any help on this please most welcome cut a long story short, as i can, been in contact center, supervised, reports are good, then contact outside with cafcass again all ok, then back in center again suported, again all ok, now on my own with baby, again all ok,, court this week , and just recived the exs, final hearing position statment, full of lies, and her solicitor wants a contested hearing? and still no contact, 2 be had, im fighting this on nmy own, no legal help, have alligations cv,, ect . all,, bs,, no were left to turn,, cafcass has closed its case file,, but the exs solicior wants again cafcass to get involved,, ive been doing this fot 2 years now, and contact center for 1 year,,
Sounds like you have been having contact and so you need to submit your statement with any evidence you can to show how well contact has been going, any reports from contact centre or cafcass etc that show contact is good should be enough to prove it for you.
It will be down to the judge but they may want to cafcass to do a check up on things so likely another s7 report, but again, just find evidence to prove the contact is/was good.
Hi there
Throughout all the allegations, contact has been happening, if her position statement contains nothing new; no new developments, theres a good chance the judge will want to progress contact further and hopefully make a final order.
If all the reports from the authorities have been good so far, again thats a good indication that the court wouldnt want to go backwards.
Has the court asked you for a statement of response? If not you can file a brief Position statement of your own, but you cant attach evidence to it. However you can refer to the evidence you will be relying upon, if youre drawing that from the reports, the court will already have them, so its just a matter of referring back to them, mentioning specific paragraphs in the reports. If you have other evidence such as photos of your child having fun and being happy with you, you can memtion those and say that you have them with you, if the court would like to have sight of them.
If you have been asked to file a statement, then you can attach any evidence you have to it.
Try not to get too bogged down in what the other side are saying, or asking for, just concentrate on putting your best case, keeping it all about your child and how well all the contact has been going and how strengthened your bond has become.
You've done so well, youve done everything thats been asked of you and you have good factual reports to back you up... well done and keep up the good work.
All the best
thankyou very much, im in court this week,, the court has asked me, us for position statments and all i had is the proof that ive done all that was asked, and contact has is going well, however the ex has made up lies saying baby is withdrawn, not her self and saying ,, xxxx words, this is just not true, i do want this to be a final hearing,, ive done this for to long, and its gotten me very down i cannot even think right, with worry all the time, it never leaves me,
thanks what do you mean? more section 7 reports,,, cafcass has closed its case , on me,, but her solicitor want to get cafcass on board again,, and wants a contested hearing,, so will it be a final hearing,, i surpose not,,
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