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Re-gaining my role as primary care giver

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10 Oct 17 #496812 by SAHD
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Hello

Looking for some advice that may transcend sub-forums topics.

Some background:

Married, seeking divorce
Male, stay at home dad thus primary carer of two young children
Wife works full time
Wife falsely accused me of domestic abuse
I was arrested and now on police bail
Not allowed into home or contact wife
Bail hearing is in 3 weeks, hoping charges are dropped

Looking for comments around the following please:

1) If charges are dropped, will I be allowed back into the family home? Could my wife seek an Occupancy or non-molestation order with similar conditions to my current bail conditions despite there being no evidence of abuse?

2) Is there anything I can do to pre-empt any potential moves by my wife to prevent any such order?

3) Realistically, in the longer term,is there a chance I can regain my role as the children's primary carer? My wife works full-time and we both agreed before that to provide the children with stability, that I would quit work and become their primary care giver. Now that she has alleged abuse, and I'm hoping common sense prevails and charges are dropped, she has now become the defacto primary carer.

Sorry if my post is unstructured or confusing, but my thinking process has been is a confused state since being arrested in front of my children for no reasons!

Thanks and I welcome any views.

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13 Oct 17 #496881 by serenary
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omg im unable to give professional advice but i am so sorry to hear you are going through your situation ... please reach out to friends, doctor + family for suppport - have them write character references maybe? sincere best wishes for the charges being dropped and she sees the wrong in her action

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13 Oct 17 #496882 by Mitchum
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This situation is quite a common theme on wikivorce and if you use the search function for e.g. 'false accusation of DV' you will find previous posts and advice on the subject. Each case is unique, but you will find similarities with yours.

A very quick internet search brought up the following link which you may find useful.
www.ncdv.org.uk/

Please remember that members here are not qualified lawyers/social workers so we can only respond from gut feelings and mine are telling me that you need legal advice.

Let us know how you get on.

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