The only possible change that I would be willing to make, which would be contingent on you providing me with compelling evidence of how or where the Wednesday night overnight is "adversely affecting" ******’s schoolwork(which I have asked for in the past via email, and which has not been provided), or is otherwise not in ******’s best interest, would be a change from every Wednesday night to every other Friday night(so as not to adversely affect said schoolwork, if this is in fact the case), as well as the retention of every other weekends as it stands now, and with the addition of 30 days of uninterrupted parenting time during the summer. I also feel that points 4, 5, 6, and 7 of my proposal dated 3/6/07 are reasonable, and that we would both benefit from these additions.
On the subject of ******’s relationship with her sister, I have consistently done whatever I could to foster a strong relationship between them, as evidenced by the fact that you and I had come to an understanding with regards to the night of weeknight visitation. As I stated in my email of 11/1/2006, “Since "we" have apparently decided that we are following the consent order from May 2002 exclusively, I think that it would be in both of our best interest to return to the correct schedule for weekly overnight visitations, which would be Wednesdays, rather than alternating Tuesdays and Thursdays(per your verbal request). …. I know that we have been doing this in an effort to permit the children to be away the same evening for visitation, and I have no problems with this. But as you have pointed out to me, ***** does not generally pick ****** up for those evenings. That being the case, I feel it would be best to return to overnights every Wednesday in an effort to keep the number of "violations" to our order to a minimum”. I fail to see, and have found no precedent stating such, how fostering a relationship with her sister is considered more important than her fostering a relationship with her father. I also fail to see a legitimate reason why ****** should be penalized by losing time with me simply because ***** fails to accomplish his visitation with ******. That would not be taking ******’s best interest into account.
Again, the only way I would possibly be willing to even consider such a change is if you can provide me the compelling evidence of how an adverse affect, due to the Wednesday overnights. Please let me know what you decide.
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... want's to eliminate those. My daughter's sister's father doesn't utilize his visitation(Tuesday one week, Thursday the next, and some form of EOW) at all. When he did, we agreed between ourselves to allow both my daughter and her sister to have "visitation"(I'm starting to hate that word) on the same evenings specifically so that they would be together on the other nights. I don't see why, simply because her sister doesn't go on visitation, my daughter and I should be penalized.
