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Visitation - what do you do when LO's sick?
DD was supposed to see ex yesterday, but she was sick. I suppose it wouldn't be an issue if we had a normal situation, but we don't. His visits are in public places, so I'd be taking her to the mall to spend 2 hours with him. I said, sorry, she's sick and we're staying home. Of course he was mad and didn't believe me. Should I just have taken her anyway and let him deal with the crying, cranky mess that she was?
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Re: Visitation - what do you do when LO's sick?
Well, it's kind of hard to reschedule. I got hosed in our temporary order and he gets to see DD every.single.weekend. He's supposed to see her one night a week too, but he never does. So, rescheduling would just be that he gets to see her next weekend, which he gets to anyway.
I can't wait to go back to court on Oct 7th...I'm done with the every weekend B.S.!
And we used to have the visits at my house, but we had some issues so he's not allowed to come over anymore.
Our agreement states that in the case of LO's sickness, he will stay home, but XH will have the opportunity to make up the visit "in a manner agreed upon by the parties." I added this last part to prevent him from demanding a date for a make up and me having to cancel plans and such if the time fell on my weekend.
Also, I have decided that if a certain timeframe elapses and he hasn't made up the visit, he loses it.
Jake's dad and I live 4 hours apart.
It's written in our CO that for big sickness (mainly fever and stomach flu), Jake stays home, but that his week-end will be rescheduled at a convenient time for both of us.
It also says that we can reschedule for extreme weather conditions. I do most of the driving, and I live in Ontario, no way I'm driving 4 hours through a blizzard.
This is not addressed in our CO, but it always depends on what kind of sick the girls are. Last Halloween, they were over there for an overnight, and in the morning YDD had a croupy cough. I went over there and picked her up and took her to emergicare since I usually handle all of the doc visits. But I've left her over there when she needed breathing treatments and steroids because I trust him to take care of her. Neither of the kids have been sick much over the past year though, so it hasn't been much of a worry. If it was really bad, he'd just visit at my house.
Ours says this too. I'm oh so super excited to travel across the drifted and icy interstate this winter in the dark to pick up LO at the end of his visits b/c XH will be too macho to think he shouldn't go and will pick up for the visit, meaning I'll have to go get him at the end.