- Jurisdiction
- California
Long story short. My husband's ex wife has time and time again refused my husband's family in assisting my husband (us) with transporting the child for his wknd exchanges. He currently has visitation with the child every other wknd and most holidays alternating yrs. We live in a different state and somehow manage to make it work. At their last court hearing winter of 2017, they were to have revised the current visitation plan now that my husband and I live out of state and the child is now enrolled in school. Like I mentioned before BM does not wish to have his family assist with exchanges. (Sometimes he gets into town later than exchange time or early the next morning due to work). However he was granted last winter to have his mother and sister be named on the court order as individuals who may pick up and drop off child for us if needed. Of course she was furious at this. She has now requested to my husband that he provide a video chat of when his family exchanges the child to us etc. even though he barely gets his weekly video chat with child. She wants to make sure child does come to us??? Not exactly sure why she feels she needs this. M y husband refuses to provide this video chat since he struggles as it is to get his weekly video chat (mom states she can't afford wi-fi). Anyway mom has thus refused to parent to parent mediate with ANY issues that come up until he agrees to the video chat she is requesting. And I mean ANY! Including the upcoming Xmas winter break schedule. She had the child entire Xmas week last yr. we had the child the second week. There aren't any current court orders because as I stated, the hearing last winter 2017 only addressed that school yr and Xmas break. The court order literally lists dates in Dec-Jan 2017. Is this legal that she refuses to discuss with him any issues including visitation schedule until he agrees to her video chat request??? They have seen a high conflict mediator who is VERY expensive. His thoughts were to go back to the mediator but this is ridiculous that mom refuses to even discuss anything until he agrees to the video chat. Again is this legal??