Need help saving my family - part 10

[Barrybran]

Nice to see that waiting before sending is starting to become standard behaviour. That's a good message too, Scorp. No BS.

As for 50/50, Australia's default position is 50/50. There are pros and cons as your lawyer suggested. It gives Dad's more rights which is fantastic but it also allows rights too easily as you still have deadbeat parents in the world. My D4's biological father is one such example. We have to keep going through rounds of mediation and solicitor visits because he has rights and we don't have the right to tell him to F-off despite being very confident about how we'd fare in court if it ever went there.

I agree that you start your negotiations at full custody, you know you won't get it but you want the kids and that's where you start, but keep in mind anything your wife could use against you to reduce your time (she'll be spiteful, you have to stay strong and not play her game). If they aren't already, they become part of your 180's.