Haven't been on here for ages! How time passes by!

Finally I got there in the end!

I am now a proud father with a Shared Residence Order!

Such sweet words!

Amazing how overnight I have gone from being a non-resident or absent parent to being a parent with care (which I always was).

Suddenly I am a capable and equal parent able to exercise once again his Parental Responsibility which would have only been theoretical and  fictional, had a SRO not been made and taking into account my ex's attempts to vilify me.

The Judge saw through the smoke screen, over-ruled a contradictory and flawed CAFCASS

My son turned 13 today, and we had a wicked party. He took 4 friends to see Tintin, and then came home for chinese. His friends are lovely boys, and we'd blown up some balloons and had some of those long ones that you blow up and then let free to shoot round the room making a dreadful noise. It was a lot of fun. We'd been discussing what to do for weeks, and my son had considered, then rejected various ideas before we realised this film would be at the cinema. I hadn't know how much involvement my stbx had in the process. My boy goes to him once a week and every other weekend, so I guessed

Hi I'm new to all this but needed somewhere to get advise and support.

Here's my story, my daughter and her partner split up after a very rocky relationship as he was an alchaholic and took drugs. She has a son who is 19 months old.  When they split she was very upset as she had tried and tried to keep the relationship going because she loved him but in the end his tempers and the fact that she had no money to feed herself and I was paying bills and buying gas and food for them because he took the bank card and was buying drink and drugs with the money they were supposed to live on.  He