Divorce Support Forums: more on contempt 4 no visitation

Be patient with your attorney. I know it's hard, it took me a year to understand that. Time is on your side with this as long as you do file contept at some point. Do not do anything to make you look bad. Your lawer might partner with the other lawer on some things but niether is going to risk there futore on a simple low cost divorce. I'm sure both attorneys would be trying to keep the contempt out of court but at some point your are going to wind up with a lot of leverage. 9 months is a lot. Do you have every other weekend and one evening? Every visitation even if only for a few hours is a contempt. It is up to the judge determan how the contempt is to be surved. In my case is was one day in jail for every day missed (56 days). If the judge doesn't do anything and they might not keep at it. The judge gave warning after warning before anything happened. Some of it was because I was making myself look bad even if it was matters out of my controle.

You need to make sure you are documenting each missed visitation is some manner that can't be argued against in court. I filed police reports but most often the police wouldn't do it but I found if I made a call and even if they didn't send someone to make the report I could at least get a copy of the call sheet later. I also used a hidden video but none of it was needed because she admitted that she was witholding visitations. This might ber another reason for your attorney not filing is they have to determan how they would prove last visitations if it is your word against hers.

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