What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? TN
It's been awhile since I've been on this site, but I'm a NCP who entered into a parenting agreement with CP for visitation in 2005. Since then, I have been dealing with CP trying to infringe on my agreed upon visitation which is mostly in the form of dance competitions, soccer, and family outings. While I have been lenient and willing to accommodate to keep the peace (as long as I didn't have any specific plans made for that time), I have also been very protective of the time I have with my daughter.
So per our agreement, I get my daughter for spring break every odd year, which would mean this year (Mar 16-27). When I first reminded CP during weekend visitation last month, there was no mention of any commitments that could potentially interfere with my spring break visitation. Only mention of a dance competition that was the same weekend as my visitation time for February, which we rescheduled. So because of that I planned for my spring break visitation (2 weeks).
In talking with CP this morning, she was only willing to do one week of the 2 week spring break mentioning that our daughter had other plans that she was committed to and that she preferred this over visitation, not to mention another dance competition the weekend of Mar 28/29. Since I had already planned for the entire two weeks, I'm very reluctant to back down at this point and have been told by CP that she intends to honor her other commitments and not our agreed upon visitation time citing that "our daughter has made her decision". I don't buy this at all and advised CP that if she does not honor our visitation agreement that I will file for contempt (as I probably should at this point). She stopped communicating with me at that point.
While it is not my intent to stand in the way of anything my daughter wants to do (I actually encourage her when there is something she wants to try), I feel that CP does try and use this as a means to interfere with my visitation, especially when I am not made aware or even invited to these events. I love my daughter very much and try very hard to be as much a part of her life as I can, even if we do live 500+ miles apart.
So with that said, the question is Am I in the right for threatening to file for contempt? And if I do, would I potentially make the situation worse from a legal standpoint? Any legitimate advice would be greatly appreciated.
It's been awhile since I've been on this site, but I'm a NCP who entered into a parenting agreement with CP for visitation in 2005. Since then, I have been dealing with CP trying to infringe on my agreed upon visitation which is mostly in the form of dance competitions, soccer, and family outings. While I have been lenient and willing to accommodate to keep the peace (as long as I didn't have any specific plans made for that time), I have also been very protective of the time I have with my daughter.
So per our agreement, I get my daughter for spring break every odd year, which would mean this year (Mar 16-27). When I first reminded CP during weekend visitation last month, there was no mention of any commitments that could potentially interfere with my spring break visitation. Only mention of a dance competition that was the same weekend as my visitation time for February, which we rescheduled. So because of that I planned for my spring break visitation (2 weeks).
In talking with CP this morning, she was only willing to do one week of the 2 week spring break mentioning that our daughter had other plans that she was committed to and that she preferred this over visitation, not to mention another dance competition the weekend of Mar 28/29. Since I had already planned for the entire two weeks, I'm very reluctant to back down at this point and have been told by CP that she intends to honor her other commitments and not our agreed upon visitation time citing that "our daughter has made her decision". I don't buy this at all and advised CP that if she does not honor our visitation agreement that I will file for contempt (as I probably should at this point). She stopped communicating with me at that point.
While it is not my intent to stand in the way of anything my daughter wants to do (I actually encourage her when there is something she wants to try), I feel that CP does try and use this as a means to interfere with my visitation, especially when I am not made aware or even invited to these events. I love my daughter very much and try very hard to be as much a part of her life as I can, even if we do live 500+ miles apart.
So with that said, the question is Am I in the right for threatening to file for contempt? And if I do, would I potentially make the situation worse from a legal standpoint? Any legitimate advice would be greatly appreciated.
