I and my sons father have our final hearing for custody on Tuesday, we are both representing ourselves; what should I involve in my testimony?
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I and my sons father have our final hearing for custody on Tuesday, we are both representing ourselves; what should I involve in my testimony?
In Kentucky it is presumed that parents receive shared/equal custody of 50/50. In order to prevent that I had to show reasons that this was not beneficial for the child-as in mental, physical, etc. I’m unsure where you are or what your laws are, but I had to include those things in mine.
I’m in Colorado, we had a temporary hearing about a month ago and the judge gave us more of a 70/30 schedule. But I included everything i had documents of !
NAL what are ya wanting exactly? Ur probaly not gonna get any better then 70/30. They try for 50/50…so if they have pushed for a diff percentage then that, probaly thats thier final decision. They rarely do 100% custody and no vistation. Unless you have new evidence to present…then theyll make the temp order permanent…they usually see how it works out before they finalize it…give either parenr a chance to see if any changes need to be made.
I am just wanting what’s in the temporary order. No changes
I would just want to include how well the child adjusted to the order, routine, etc. and that change in routine would serve no benefit.
Basically I have every other Sunday Wednesday-Saturday he has every other Sunday Monday and Tuesday. He’s a police officer and the days he’s asking for have chances of his work schedule changing. We both have decision making, I’m just primary.
So since we already have a temporary order in place we aren’t starting over even though it’s a new judge?
they try to get this cases finalize quickly…if the temp schudule is working they should stick with that. You think dad is gonna fight for a change? If he tries to say his schudule changes…just state thats everybody…theres always a chance schudules at work can alternate…just part of being a parent…maybe offer makeup times for days he may miss, if his job would take up all his parenting time lots of people get custody order so that if it comes to a point that parents cant co parent…something black n white to fall on. But usually like in my custody agreement theres a clause that for special circumstances or normal day to day decsions we will work out between ourselves. Ex: switching weekends because his grandpa showed up in town or dad doesnt get off work in time on his day to pick up from school, so ill pick up and dad can get from my house.
yeah the judge actually requested that we talk about a step up parenting plan and I offered that for the summer time, because we both want to keep the same schedule for the whole year and he refused that. But we have been doing well with this so far! So I’m hoping for the same thing. He’s asking for Saturday- Wednesday but he works every other Wednesday and that would leave no weekend days for me. So I offered every other Saturday and Sunday and he said no