Contact advice please
Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2018 11:55 am
Hi, I am in need of some advice please. My husband and I have an SGO for our grandchild who lives with us, there was also a child arrangement order in place for supervised contact with parents to be 6 times per year at 3 hours per session. The child's mother applied to court for more contact and at the recent hearing, the contact is still supervised sessions 6 times per year but with extra time for birthdays, mothers day and Christmas. We keep in touch with each other via email and she was told in court that this is to arrange contact only as she has been bombarding us with emails when she does not agree with something. Also in court, the judge stated that contact should be in the child's locality but as this is not written in the order, she is refusing to come to the child for contact and wants us to travel to her, we do not drive and would have to use public transport which would take around 2 and a half hours each way and the child is 4 years old with little patience. My concern is that if we insist that she comes to the child for contact, are we doing anything wrong? Her constant threat of going back to court because we are not complying with the court order has got my nerves on edge as well as being told contact is hers to do as she pleases, it is not for us to control!