What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Wa State
Ok so i proposed a temporary parenting plan and filed it with court and got the mother served and all that and we had court yesterday and i had asked for a preogressive schedule to give me 4 hrs per visit twice weekly *unsupervised* and then 8 hrs twice weekly the next month and then 1 8hr visit and 1 overnight visit the following month well she asked in her responce for the visits to be twice weekly 4 hrs each *supervised still* and the judge granted her request and didnt give me *unsupervised visits* :-(
He did grant me fathers day and my birthday but still only 4 hours supervised (i asked for those 2 days be overnight visits but mom didnt agree. so i didnt get it
So i have a few questions regarding my court hearing.
#1 Why would a judge not do a progressive plan and just order the 4 hour visits and not mention them going longer after a period of time? he just mentioned that he was granting her request for the times and supervised untill there is a change in circumstances or we come up with a FINAL parenting plan?
#2 She served me her responce 10 minutes before court hearing (shouldnt i have been serverd erlier so i could have time to look over her responce? or should i have asked for continuance so i could have time to look over them?
I thought since i was the petitioner i had the right to respond to her responce? Am i wrong here?
#3 Even though she agreed to mutual desicion making as i asked for the judge stated since baby lives with her she gets to make all the desicions?
#4 The judge stated he didnt know what did or didnt happen with the DV accusations but stated since we have a DV TPO and mom has concerns about baby's safety this is the way the visits are going to be?
#5 We didnt have our original judge we had a visiting judge cause our judge was in a differant county doing a trial. Maybe i should have asked for continuance untill our judge came back?
#6 So now that we have this temporary order and mother asked for visits to be the 4 hours twice a week untill final parenting plan is in place and the visits be supervised at least untill the TPO is over. Would it be best to wait untill TPO is over to file the FINAL parenting plan so i can assure i get the best results?
My concern is that she isnt gonna budge on parenting time and when we go to court for final parenting plan im gonna ask for shared and she is gonna ask for LIMITED time again.
I put in my decleration that i had completed parenting classes and filed the certificate for the judge to see and all that but he didnt seem to care about what i have done so far it all seemed to boil down to what mom wanted and the TPO
Any advice?
As usuall thanks for any/all input
Ok so i proposed a temporary parenting plan and filed it with court and got the mother served and all that and we had court yesterday and i had asked for a preogressive schedule to give me 4 hrs per visit twice weekly *unsupervised* and then 8 hrs twice weekly the next month and then 1 8hr visit and 1 overnight visit the following month well she asked in her responce for the visits to be twice weekly 4 hrs each *supervised still* and the judge granted her request and didnt give me *unsupervised visits* :-(
He did grant me fathers day and my birthday but still only 4 hours supervised (i asked for those 2 days be overnight visits but mom didnt agree. so i didnt get it
So i have a few questions regarding my court hearing.
#1 Why would a judge not do a progressive plan and just order the 4 hour visits and not mention them going longer after a period of time? he just mentioned that he was granting her request for the times and supervised untill there is a change in circumstances or we come up with a FINAL parenting plan?
#2 She served me her responce 10 minutes before court hearing (shouldnt i have been serverd erlier so i could have time to look over her responce? or should i have asked for continuance so i could have time to look over them?
I thought since i was the petitioner i had the right to respond to her responce? Am i wrong here?
#3 Even though she agreed to mutual desicion making as i asked for the judge stated since baby lives with her she gets to make all the desicions?
#4 The judge stated he didnt know what did or didnt happen with the DV accusations but stated since we have a DV TPO and mom has concerns about baby's safety this is the way the visits are going to be?
#5 We didnt have our original judge we had a visiting judge cause our judge was in a differant county doing a trial. Maybe i should have asked for continuance untill our judge came back?
#6 So now that we have this temporary order and mother asked for visits to be the 4 hours twice a week untill final parenting plan is in place and the visits be supervised at least untill the TPO is over. Would it be best to wait untill TPO is over to file the FINAL parenting plan so i can assure i get the best results?
My concern is that she isnt gonna budge on parenting time and when we go to court for final parenting plan im gonna ask for shared and she is gonna ask for LIMITED time again.
I put in my decleration that i had completed parenting classes and filed the certificate for the judge to see and all that but he didnt seem to care about what i have done so far it all seemed to boil down to what mom wanted and the TPO
Any advice?
As usuall thanks for any/all input