Want ex to do more contact/care draft
Want ex to do more contact/care draft
If you want your ex to have more contact with your children and look after the children more, there are a few steps you can take to try and arrange more contact.
- Have a mutual conversation. If you can you should sit down with your ex and use this opportunity to express your concerns over the lack of contact. Its is a good idea to think of some ideas on how your ex can improve the contact they have with the children, such as if you don’t have a routine on who has the children on what days think about suggesting putting one in place.
- If you want to make things more formal, you can create a parenting plan with your ex. A parenting plan is a agreement between both parents to help each parent know what is expected of them, when they have the children, living arrangements, where the children will be collected and dropped off ect. Parenting plans are not legally binding so they can be changed if needed but they can be very useful to help each parent understand what is expected of them and when they will have their children.
- If this doesn’t work or you are unable to sit down with your ex, your next step would be mediation. Mediation is a good chance for you both to be able to express your concerns about contact with the children and come out with a fair and practical outcome for everyone, especially your children. Think about what you want to talk about beforehand and remember that mediation is for the both of you so give your ex a chance to speak and express their concerns too.
- You can try to apply to court for a child arrangements order but its important to know that this order will unlikely be granted as the court will not see it in the best interest of the child to force a parent that does not want to have contact with their children spend time with them.
