What is the name of your state? MD
My son's Daddy has asked me to reverse our custody arrangement for the summer. Apparently they are moving back to the area before school lets out and he has requested that he have our son for the summer with me having EOW and 1 week vacation.
I have sole legal and sole residential custody. It has been that way since son was born. I do not FEEL son would be too happy with it all of a sudden flipping like this. I know kids are resilient but our son has made so many friends in Kindergarten and we have already been talking about summer camps with a handful of his friends.
I feel this is a ploy to reduce his CS as it is back in the courts for modification. I guess I am jsut annoyed by the fact that his father is always fighting for more time but then never arranges his work schedule to accommodate it. Every time son has gone for extended visits, every nightly call, he would tell me that Daddy was still at work and he had not seen him all day, so he was going to try and wake up earlier to see him the next day. That is sad. When he does have these extended visits, he ends up staying with his stepmother and half baby sister the whole time. I can't argue that....it is none of my business.
I would be happy to give him more time above the court order if he, the father, had a track record that showed he wanted the time to hang with kiddo, not just get more overnights to count towards reducing the CS.
My son's Daddy has asked me to reverse our custody arrangement for the summer. Apparently they are moving back to the area before school lets out and he has requested that he have our son for the summer with me having EOW and 1 week vacation.
I have sole legal and sole residential custody. It has been that way since son was born. I do not FEEL son would be too happy with it all of a sudden flipping like this. I know kids are resilient but our son has made so many friends in Kindergarten and we have already been talking about summer camps with a handful of his friends.
I feel this is a ploy to reduce his CS as it is back in the courts for modification. I guess I am jsut annoyed by the fact that his father is always fighting for more time but then never arranges his work schedule to accommodate it. Every time son has gone for extended visits, every nightly call, he would tell me that Daddy was still at work and he had not seen him all day, so he was going to try and wake up earlier to see him the next day. That is sad. When he does have these extended visits, he ends up staying with his stepmother and half baby sister the whole time. I can't argue that....it is none of my business.
I would be happy to give him more time above the court order if he, the father, had a track record that showed he wanted the time to hang with kiddo, not just get more overnights to count towards reducing the CS.