50/50 and school and why it won't work..

**nickle730** · November 2nd, 2013, 09:54 PM

Surely I have misread your post...? Both of your children - your DS and your DD - are fathered by your ex? He is the biological parent of both of them? But he only wants to see your DS? Good grief, I hope I have misunderstood. I can only imagine the damage that situation will do to your daughters sense of self worth. Do as everyone else has suggested, get some good legal advice. A man who has no interest in one of his children but fights for the other deserves neither of them in my opinion.

**Country_Mum** · November 3rd, 2013, 01:03 AM

Thanks Divvy, will give her a call first thing Monday. Been trying to find a good family lawyer but no one I know has much experience with a situation like this.

As to ex, yup, both kids are his but the moment DS was born he was the gold child one of the main reasons why we split. As to 50/50, I never wanted it, but the mediation centre that we went too refused to let it to go to court and no joke, I was bullied into "accepting" 50/50 parenting and just had to "deal with it". I did however this time around report the original mediation centre, whom were investigated. This is why I dont want 50/50 anymore and I definitely can't send my boy to 2 different homes and schools at the same time. Right now at this moment he's woken up several times, excited to see daddy tomorrow but upset because it means he cant see us..

**Livinthedream** · November 3rd, 2013, 05:27 AM

I don't believe that any judge would find it in the best interests of your son to separate him from his sister.

I so cannot imagine he will look very favourably upon your ex for only taking his son.

I would think that you have a very strong case for keeping your son.

Good luck and please keep us posted.

**Country_Mum** · November 14th, 2013, 02:44 AM

I don't believe that any judge would find it in the best interests of your son to separate him from his sister.

I so cannot imagine he will look very favourably upon your ex for only taking his son.

I would think that you have a very strong case for keeping your son.

Good luck and please keep us posted.

Nope, I can't imagine they would but I have no doubts that he will try and turn it around on me somehow..

Sorry for the late reply, no joke, I was all set to ring legal aid, then no reception, which meant no internet (the ONLY downside to living on a hobby farm is no net!), took a few days to fix and then DD got super sick. So first thing 9am today I AM ringing legal aid..

I just got a letter saying it's been postponed due to "work commitments" until mid January.. So I'm fuming because I won't have long to get everything organized for school stuff/enrollments etc