My former partner/spouse isn’t providing access according to our court order. What can I do?

The first thing you can do is apply to court to try and get the court order enforced so that he or she does provide access as previously agreed to or ordered.

If that fails then your former partner/spouse may be found in contempt of the order and fined or imprisoned.

Another possibility, which depends on how consistently your access has been denied and for how long, is for the court to vary the pre-existing order so that you are granted custody and your former partner/spouse is given access to the children.

However, you must assure the court that if that is to happen you will be willing to encourage access between the children and the other parent.