What if my ex violates the parenting plan?

 

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If your ex violates the parenting plan and has to do with withholding your parenting time with your child, you can petition the court for what’s called criminal contempt of court. There’s two types of contempt in Tennessee. One’s criminal, one’s civil. The purpose of criminal contempt is to punish someone who has violated a court order, and it is to resolve a situation where the court can’t return the item that was taken from you. And the way that works is in civil contempt, the judge can say, “You owed

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$1,200. You did not pay it. You had the ability to pay it. You must pay it.” And the court can either enter a judgment that you can collect on or the judge has at its disposal the right to say you will go to jail until you pay this amount. If the violations are significant, that might be a material change in circumstances such that you can ask the court to modify your custody order or parenting plan and make it such that you are the primary residential parent or the parent making decisions.

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So, for example, if the other parent withholds your parenting time, the court could modify the parenting schedule to give you additional days for that violation.

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