abstract99
Senior Member
What is the name of your state? Az
I have visitation with my kids during their fall break this year. I also have a court date the day before their break starts and the day after it ends. Because I have to travel to Arizona anyways it will be cheaper for me to just drive instead of buy 6 tickets for airline travel. I contacted my ex yesterday and stated as follows:
"XXXXXXXXXX,
I will be traveling to Tucson to pick up the children during the start of my visitation time with the children on 23 September 2006. Please have the children available for this. Since I have to be back in town again for court on the 16th of October, I will also be driving the kids back to Tucson on the 15th of October. There will be no need for you to drive to the airport to drop them off as they will be making both trips via car. I will be stopping in Texas for 2 days to visit with my brother and then will go up through Alabama so that they can visit with your mother as they have not seen her in a while. If you do not have my brother’s address anymore please let me know, otherwise I can be reached on my cell and you can reach the children on theirs. If you have any questions feel free to contact me."
She responded today with:
"I cannot allow you to travel with the kids this fall in the manner in which you say that you will. It will be too much on the kids to have to drive that entire distance and it is not fair to them to have to be in the car that long. Furthermore, without you purchasing airfare for the kids I do not know if you will actually return them to me as you say you will. You will need to purchase airfare for the kids, and I would prefer it is you fly with them as I do not like them to travel alone. Even if you do purchase the plane tickets you will need to change your itinerary around a bit. XXXXX has a boy scouts meeting on 9 October and he cannot miss this. Because of this I will need you to return the kids 7 or 8 days early. I have also been talking to the kids and they tell me that they will be visiting with your wife’s Grandparent’s this Christmas. I cannot allow this, Christmas is supposed to be a time that the kids spend with Family and they have never met these people before so they are basically strangers to the kids. It would ruin their holiday and if you would like to visit your wife’s side of the family over the holiday season, I will be more than happy to care for the kids while you do so."
Will any of this hold up in court? I don't see why I can't just drive it with the children. They have driven this with me before about 5 or 6 times. I haven't had my children for Christmas Day in 4 years and they are really looking forward to this one because my oldest daughter (their half-sister) will be visiting as well during this time.
I have visitation with my kids during their fall break this year. I also have a court date the day before their break starts and the day after it ends. Because I have to travel to Arizona anyways it will be cheaper for me to just drive instead of buy 6 tickets for airline travel. I contacted my ex yesterday and stated as follows:
"XXXXXXXXXX,
I will be traveling to Tucson to pick up the children during the start of my visitation time with the children on 23 September 2006. Please have the children available for this. Since I have to be back in town again for court on the 16th of October, I will also be driving the kids back to Tucson on the 15th of October. There will be no need for you to drive to the airport to drop them off as they will be making both trips via car. I will be stopping in Texas for 2 days to visit with my brother and then will go up through Alabama so that they can visit with your mother as they have not seen her in a while. If you do not have my brother’s address anymore please let me know, otherwise I can be reached on my cell and you can reach the children on theirs. If you have any questions feel free to contact me."
She responded today with:
"I cannot allow you to travel with the kids this fall in the manner in which you say that you will. It will be too much on the kids to have to drive that entire distance and it is not fair to them to have to be in the car that long. Furthermore, without you purchasing airfare for the kids I do not know if you will actually return them to me as you say you will. You will need to purchase airfare for the kids, and I would prefer it is you fly with them as I do not like them to travel alone. Even if you do purchase the plane tickets you will need to change your itinerary around a bit. XXXXX has a boy scouts meeting on 9 October and he cannot miss this. Because of this I will need you to return the kids 7 or 8 days early. I have also been talking to the kids and they tell me that they will be visiting with your wife’s Grandparent’s this Christmas. I cannot allow this, Christmas is supposed to be a time that the kids spend with Family and they have never met these people before so they are basically strangers to the kids. It would ruin their holiday and if you would like to visit your wife’s side of the family over the holiday season, I will be more than happy to care for the kids while you do so."
Will any of this hold up in court? I don't see why I can't just drive it with the children. They have driven this with me before about 5 or 6 times. I haven't had my children for Christmas Day in 4 years and they are really looking forward to this one because my oldest daughter (their half-sister) will be visiting as well during this time.