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By *ancinDave OP   Man
2 weeks ago

CorkCity

FATHERS / MEN

Can anyone recommend a good family law solicitor for fathers in cork?

How the justice system in this country, looks down their nose at fathers disgusts me.

Does anyone have experience with a solicitor that has the balls to stand up for us in court?

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By *itlbeeCouple
2 weeks ago

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Assuming this is an unmarried father issue. Lots of info available, you may not even need a lawyer.

Check the citizens information page on guardianship and unmarried parents. If you liked together for a certain amount of time you become a guardian, and you can also apply to the court, without legal representation to be recognized as a legal.guardian.

If youv been in the kids life, and can show you e been there as their father - courts recognize that.

A massive issue in Ireland is that the fear of courts being biased against men, is actually leading to men not getting the custody they are legally entitled to.

I have a family member whose ex has been really shitty at organizing visitation, and sometimes refusing when it's not convenient. The courts could absolutely make them draw up a visitation schedule she need to stick to, if he went for it.

Start by talking to free legal aid, and citizens information. Find out what your entitled to based on your situation.

Your post sounds like your angry, which is reasonable, but aggression is custody battles hurts everyone. You did to show yourself as a respectable co parent.

If your a dad who wants to be there to support your kids and raise them as much as their mam, good on you - courts should see that. Most men who ask for 50 50 custody actually get it.

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By *ilthyNightsCouple
2 weeks ago

East / North, Cork

My experience of cork family courts and solicitors with 50/50 custody was a positive one. They didn't seem biased. Have you tried mediation? The free family mediation centre on south mall were brilliant and didn't seem to be biased to one side or the other. That can help you create a framework that's workable for you both, which is something that can form the basis of how things can work as you move ahead.

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By *electableicecreamMan
2 weeks ago

The West

+1 for mediation if it's a possibility. You can avoid the formality and time/cost of the court system and have a written agreement that is mediated and can be recognised legally.

My ex and myself were lucky and didn't have a contentious separation but we still drew up an agreement through mediation that covered custody, holidays, medical and education decisions, next of kin etc.

We've never needed it but you never know when the shit might hit the fan.

There's probably more perceived bias in the system now than institutional bias.

And there are non profit groups out there to support and guide single dads.

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By *ancinDave OP   Man
2 weeks ago

CorkCity

Mediation and counselling have been refused by the other party everytime I requested.

Court orders have been breached on multiple occasions and I do not receive any real support from the courts, guards or my solicitor.

I need someone with backbone and experience.

The is 0 reproductions to the mother and I have not been able to have a voice in a court despite having been in there on multiple occasions.

I need a solicitor with balls because nobody stands with us (from my experience) when there is conflict between parents.

Fathers do not have the support I believed they would in this country.

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By *ntrigue2110Woman
2 weeks ago

Cork

My experience with the system in cork has been similar, it doesn’t seem to be more biased to either mothers/fathers, but it lacks teeth if one party chooses to disregard the court orders… I feel your frustration

The only advice I can give is to keep logging breaches with the Gardaí at the time they occur, they won’t get involved as such, but get it logged and get an incident number. Once you have a few minor or one major breach, take them back to Court, I did this myself without my solicitor and the judge did give a fair dressing down due to a high volume of minor (an hour or two late collecting/dropping) and he didn’t bring her home after her weeks holidays and was out of contact for hours after the court appointed time, so that was a fairly serious breach and the Gardai did get involved.

In court I asked how long is reasonable to be expected to wait at handovers and now if he’s 15mins late I don’t have to wait, it’s his breach not mine. So if he’s not there to collect, I leave, he loses his time. If he’s doesn’t bring her back on time, I log it with the Gardaí. The real benefits are that he now turns up for our daughter in the main, I don’t have to cover for him with her and he doesn’t get to mess with me and my time anymore. Everyone’s situation is different, but my experience with solicitors is that they present the worst whichever parent you are and there is a bit of scaremongering goes on, which is why o chose to deal directly with the courts office once we had an order in place. They hard very helpful, but you do need to appear a bit more level than this post indicates you might be at this point in time, so gather and ground yourself, it’s a slog, it helped that I wasn’t trying to stop him seeing her so be reasonable in your expectations

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By *adyKarmennTVTV/TS
2 weeks ago

Dublin

Obviously I’ve no first hand experience with this but one of my best friends went through it and Christ!!!! It was shameful what he was out through

One of mates her uncle is going through it! He can’t get custody yet everything in favour of the mam who’s an alcoholic and just had another child with her fella an has little to do with the 3 she has with him (there’s a lot to the story)

Honestly it’s disgusting what dads are put through!!

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By *acks the boy66Man
2 weeks ago

limerick

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By *acks the boy66Man
2 weeks ago

limerick

Is your Solicitor a male or female

Get back to me on my profile private

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By *ancinDave OP   Man
2 weeks ago

CorkCity

I appreciate the time you took to write this and for the advice you have given.

Perspective is everything, unfortunately your perspective of this scenario is as a woman so you wouldn’t have experienced the kind of thing I am talking about.

After I ended the relationship with the mother of my children, (the reason I left would be fully understood by anyone if detailed) I went 12 months without overnight access to my children, (now have one night a week but still fighting for more) any parent who loves their children will understand, lying in bed and cuddling your child to sleep, waking up in the morning and the first thing you feel is their little arms or legs, the first thing you hear is daddy or a giggle or waking up in the middle of the night when they roll on top of you to try get comfy, or an unexpected arm wraps around you and holds onto you, THIS, is the most precious and incredible feeling that we as a species can feel, how women KNOW THIS and can take this absolutely heavenly feeling from children and fathers, just as a fuck you to the father to show who’s in control of the kids and get away with it, genuinely made me feel sick. I am not abusive/ neglectful/ drug or alcohol addicted incase you think there is a “reason”. 3 years ago I wouldn’t have believed what I have experienced can be allowed in this age.

Over the years I have been going through this, I have never once insulted my ex to my children, in fact I have always maintained (to them only) that she is a great mommy (CUNT) I have bit my tongue and held my anger like a champ and because I have a rant on here with an “anonymous” account, you think I need to gather myself? As I said, perspective is everything and just because you believe something, doesn’t make it true. (Not you, the person who I’m replying to, you in a general people sense) it’s easy to make a judgement without seeing the full picture.

Anywho sorry for the rant 😂 do you know a ruthless solicitor? 😂

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By *antra MassageMan
1 week ago

South Side.

I was in your situation once. I consulted a female ruthless solicitor on a free first consultation basis. She proposed a basic fee of €19,000, with additional costs for every letter and meeting. Her advice was so bitter, ruthless, win at all costs, I decided there was no way i was going to follow her legal strategy. Also, i didnt have that money.

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By *ntrigue2110Woman
1 week ago

Cork


"I appreciate the time you took to write this and for the advice you have given.

Perspective is everything, unfortunately your perspective of this scenario is as a woman so you wouldn’t have experienced the kind of thing I am talking about.

After I ended the relationship with the mother of my children, (the reason I left would be fully understood by anyone if detailed) I went 12 months without overnight access to my children, (now have one night a week but still fighting for more) any parent who loves their children will understand, lying in bed and cuddling your child to sleep, waking up in the morning and the first thing you feel is their little arms or legs, the first thing you hear is daddy or a giggle or waking up in the middle of the night when they roll on top of you to try get comfy, or an unexpected arm wraps around you and holds onto you, THIS, is the most precious and incredible feeling that we as a species can feel, how women KNOW THIS and can take this absolutely heavenly feeling from children and fathers, just as a fuck you to the father to show who’s in control of the kids and get away with it, genuinely made me feel sick. I am not abusive/ neglectful/ drug or alcohol addicted incase you think there is a “reason”. 3 years ago I wouldn’t have believed what I have experienced can be allowed in this age.

Over the years I have been going through this, I have never once insulted my ex to my children, in fact I have always maintained (to them only) that she is a great mommy (CUNT) I have bit my tongue and held my anger like a champ and because I have a rant on here with an “anonymous” account, you think I need to gather myself? As I said, perspective is everything and just because you believe something, doesn’t make it true. (Not you, the person who I’m replying to, you in a general people sense) it’s easy to make a judgement without seeing the full picture.

Anywho sorry for the rant 😂 do you know a ruthless solicitor? 😂"

No worries, the point I was trying to make was that my solicitor was very much saying if you go to court he gets 50:50, better to agree yourselves, solicitors got paid a fortune for the courts to approve what they hashed out. When he was breaching the order my solicitor said what do you want, can’t make him turn up…. After week in week out of him not showing, etc I phoned the courts office and they recommended logging each incident with the Gardaí, my solicitor never suggested this, they were helpful in the Courts office, I found. This step allowed me to take him back to Court and the judge did tear him out of it about his obligation to meet the terms of the Order. From your earlier response I understood that your ex wasn’t keeping to the terms of your order so I thought this might be a helpful suggestion, and less costly than solicitors…

Of course I can only speak from my own experience, which is as a woman yes, so if it’s no help to you, I am sorry, it wasn’t my intention to antagonise in any way, I can see you’re hurting and ranting here is fine, I was merely trying to offer what I hoped might be of some help. Best of luck👍

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By *ancinDave OP   Man
1 week ago

CorkCity

Your situation does have similarities to mine, 50:50 would be great but she knows the only thing she has that I want is my kids. I have tried all peaceful resolutions, even tried to reason with her after everything that went on but she doesn’t want peace between us, not even for the kids sake so there isn’t much can be done but get back into court with a better solicitor and get more time with my kids.

You certainly have not antagonised me by sharing your experience, thank you ☺️

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