Have you had that info from a good U.K. family lawyer? My wife is paying a very expensive solicitor and she has been implicitly told she can’t take the kids from our family home until we have both agreed terms for childcare and have a legal arrangement in place
Originally Posted by herbie
Have you had that info from a good U.K. family lawyer? My wife is paying a very expensive solicitor and she has been implicitly told she can’t take the kids from our family home until we have both agreed terms for childcare and have a legal arrangement in place
A UK family lawyer advised me to sort it between ourselves if possible or then go through a mediation process to try to agree. You can only go to a court if mediation has failed. Then the court decides.
If W doesn't stick to the court agreement then you have to go back to court where she may get a small fine. The UK system is a nightmare.
Therefore, be aware that if your W takes the kids there's nothing you can do to get them back insofar as the police won't get involved to take them back. You have to go through a legal process.
What happened to me, I went to collect the kids from school as usual. The school told me they had been taken by W during the day. I then realised that W had left me and taken them. They still go to the same school. In theory, I could go and collect them early one day and bring them home to live with me. In fact W is now asking me about collecting them on some days because she is having problems doing it around her job (where she is most likely to be having an A, if she is).
