Hi, I think my situation closely matches this thread, but feel free to correct me and ask me to move it to a separate thread.
For a variation does the whole cycle start again? CAFCASS safeguarding phone call > FHDRA > final hearing? How long before submission of C79(?) (or is it another C100 for a variation?) until the CAFCASS call? And then presumably 4 or 5 months before a final hearing (entirely dependent on workload of the court I know, my previous experience was it took 18 months from application to final hearing so I hope that’s not the case again!). Mediation is to happen soon.
There are a number of issues, one of which is fairly urgent (mother wishing to move child into a nursery that doesn’t meet his needs - I assume she will do this with or without my consent by the summer) and the other issues being less urgent (e.g. my wish to change the current care schedule, partly so that I can take our child into nursery more often - it’s me alone that currently takes him to nursery, on “our time” - not impacting any further on his time with me, and more generally because our child wants and needs more time in our home) plus a medical thing (non-urgent). Plus potentially a SIO relating to foreign travel but that’s TBC.
I guess what I want is some insight into timing - I don’t want to return to court before a year has passed but if I wait until a year has passed before submitting the variation application then maybe (after the slow administration process) the hearing won’t be until it’s too late.
Another question - will there be some kind of silly 2 page limit on the position statement length and will I be able to submit case law exhibits etc? If the previous bundle (that contained all the evidence on which I will need to rely) is not allowed to be submitted again then I’ll have to include a lot of the information and evidence in the next bundle.
Another question that has popped into my head: Is it worth citing the latest (sociological and psychological) research in shared care that concludes that children have better outcomes in a shared care environment? Or will a (magistrates) court just think “I have 30 minutes to consider this case, I don’t give a toss about the latest research?”.