alt.uk.law

Mark wrote:

> Some advice please ( posted full story for those who not read my
> earlier posts)
>
> Ok me and my partner in 2003 split up. We have a daughter together.
> Access until December 2004 was perfect. I saw my daughter twice a
> week and me and my ex got on great. Used to go into town together and
> be real good friends. Then she got married and everything turned bad.
> They stopped me seeing my daughter on the basis that i was illegally
> driving a car. I was in fact at the time picking up my daughter while
> having a driving lesson from my mother. She has been driving for 17
> years so is perfectly fine to teach me. I had L plates on the car and
> my mother was in the passenger seat. Obviously my ex partner could
> never prove this but it is still the reason she is using.
>
> So I then goto a solicitor for advice and we start court proceedings.
> The first 4 courts dates was for family courts to which none of my ex
> turned up to. We then asked magistrates if they could locate her as
> she had moved house with her new husband and my daughter. The courts
> found her through child benefit records. After this had happened my
> ex's partner turned up at my house drunk pushed pass my partner and
> ran upstairs telling me to come outside and fight me. Luckily my
> mother was there and told me not to touch him as it go against me. My
> partner called the police who arrested him at my house. As far as I
> know he was bailed and told not to come near me, my partner or my
> house. We then asked for the case to goto a county court so we could
> serve her to attend court. It was granted. The county court told her
> she must come to court on the next date which once again she never
> turned up. The court once again served her but this time with a penal
> notice attatched. She attended court for the first time in 6 tries.
>
> She had no solicitor and her husband said he would represent her. My
> solicitor requested that he not be allowed in court as he was not
> neutral or had anything to do with the case. He was told he would not
> be allowed in. My ex entered the court room on her own. While in the
> court room the judge told me ex he was not happy about her non
> attendance for previous court dates. My ex then said she would allow
> me to see my daughter in her house with herself and her husband
> present. Due to what happened earlier with her husband at my house
> the judge said no and contact would take place at a contact centre
> the Saturday after the court date. I was thrilled.
>
> Contact was 1 hour every fortnight and went great. ACAS then come to
> mine and my ex partners house for a report. It was suggested after 12
> contact sessions I would be allowed to take my daughter unsupervised
> as long as my Father picked her up due to my ex allegations of me
> illeagily driving. Acas when they went to my ex partners house asked
> them this and my ex agreed. It was also suggested my Father would
> meet my daughter at the contact centre so when he did pick my
> daughter up he was not a stranger. On the next contact session I
> asked my ex and the centre staff if it was ok for my Father and his
> wife to attend. Both said fine. So on the next session my Father and
> his wife came with me and all was fine. Now as I had regular contact
> it was increased to two hour per session per fortnight.
>
> She never turned up for the next session. No phone call or nothing. I
> went 3 more times after that and was the same every time. We took it
> back to court but ignored all court and solicitor letters asking her
> to turn up. We then had to get a court bailiff to serve her at her
> house so she could not deny not getting the letters. The bailiff went
> to her house and at first she said that she was my ex's sister. I got
> told this and informed my solicitor who then informed the court that
> she is a only child and does not have a sister. The bailiff went back
> and knocked the door. By this time I had already forwarded a picture
> of my ex so the bailiff knew who she was. He confirmed it as her as
> she came to the window and refused to open the door. He shouted
> through the letter box and she came to the door put never opened it.
> He then put the papers through the door and marked down she had been
> served by the courts.
>
> My solicitor then instead of taking it back to court asked for
> contact to restart at the centre. My solicitor said we would give her
> two chances to turn up and sent a letter to my ex telling her so. So
> first contact centre comes and nothing. She does not turn up again.
> My solicitor then sends another letter stating unless she turns up
> this time a penal notice would be attached and she would be in
> contempt of court which could lead to a custodial sentence. Contact
> was Saturday just gone. She never turned up.
>
> So sorry for the long post but I am just wondering what will happen
> next now?
>
> Thanks for any advice given

Apply for custody , its obvoius you expartners husband is violent and
a danger too your daughter

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