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Does my ex wife have the legal right to stop me from having contact with our son because I declined to give her my address?
Hi, can you give us some more information, is there a contact order, do you have PR etc?
There's no contact order. We have an arrangement agreed by both of us. But I have declined to give her my address due to my experience with her covering issues of physical violence and abuse. I have parental responsibility as I am the named father on his birth certificate and married to her too. she said its because of health and safety concerns but this was never an issue until I filled a D petition last two weeks.
I'm afraid that without the contact order, as the parent with care, she can control contact. If she is going to withhold contact then I'd look at mediation to see if there is any mediated way forward, but otherwise you are looking at a applying for a contact order. Have a read of yoji's guide to representing yourself at the top of the legal section.
And on a completely different subject - this is my 2500'th post 🙂
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