Freedom
Donation protected
Who it affects:
My daughter.
Me.
Objectives:
To get permission to leave the country and live the life we want to live.
To be free.
To not be confined to living in Wales and England.
Things to know:
I can't give every detail.
6 years ago I went to court to fight for my daughter.
6 years ago, I won.
Now, we're fighting a different battle.
Background:
For the last 6 years, I've been raising my daughter by myself. Some days it has been tougher than others, but after being given my daughter by Social Services and having to go to court so that we wouldn't feel the fear of kidnapping or something of that nature, I thought that would have been the last day I would ever have to fight in court.
6 years on, still no contact, no effort from her mother other than violent messages, threats and bullying. We're back at court again. The reason for this is that I'm now a qualified EFL teacher, but hopefully by the end of the next two years I will be a fully qualified Secondary English teacher and will have the capacity to go abroad with my daughter.
It has been our dream to travel to different places, learn about other cultures, and live away from the place which has caused us so much grief, financial difficulties and loss.
Our objective is to get court to overrule her mother's decision, which was a no.
It also resulted in us losing several opportunities to get a better life, in which she was offered a place in an international school for free, and our accommodation was paid for.
It was a no, not because she was worried about her daughter, but because it is the only thing in our lives that she can control, and although she has stated that she wants nothing to do with us, nothing to do with her daughter, she refuses to sign a letter to allow us to move abroad, so that I can give our daughter a life she deserves.
I've been in and out of work for the last year and have spent 4 years at University trying to get an education so that I can give my daughter the best version of a life that I can possibly give. I had no idea that by going to court, I would require permission to leave the country.
For doing what's in my daughter's best interests, we ended up trapped here.
I don't know what I would have done, if I hadn't had my parents to help me, but I can't ask them for any more than what they have given, which has already been far too much.
So, I'm turning to this. I've never wanted to ask for money or to seek out help, but I want to turn our lives around and be able to pay for the solicitor fees which are now already over £1,500 and are expected to go up by £1,000 by the end of July.
I'm not sure how I'm going to do this, but I'm going to try, so here I am, asking for help from anyone who is willing.
My daughter.
Me.
Objectives:
To get permission to leave the country and live the life we want to live.
To be free.
To not be confined to living in Wales and England.
Things to know:
I can't give every detail.
6 years ago I went to court to fight for my daughter.
6 years ago, I won.
Now, we're fighting a different battle.
Background:
For the last 6 years, I've been raising my daughter by myself. Some days it has been tougher than others, but after being given my daughter by Social Services and having to go to court so that we wouldn't feel the fear of kidnapping or something of that nature, I thought that would have been the last day I would ever have to fight in court.
6 years on, still no contact, no effort from her mother other than violent messages, threats and bullying. We're back at court again. The reason for this is that I'm now a qualified EFL teacher, but hopefully by the end of the next two years I will be a fully qualified Secondary English teacher and will have the capacity to go abroad with my daughter.
It has been our dream to travel to different places, learn about other cultures, and live away from the place which has caused us so much grief, financial difficulties and loss.
Our objective is to get court to overrule her mother's decision, which was a no.
It also resulted in us losing several opportunities to get a better life, in which she was offered a place in an international school for free, and our accommodation was paid for.
It was a no, not because she was worried about her daughter, but because it is the only thing in our lives that she can control, and although she has stated that she wants nothing to do with us, nothing to do with her daughter, she refuses to sign a letter to allow us to move abroad, so that I can give our daughter a life she deserves.
I've been in and out of work for the last year and have spent 4 years at University trying to get an education so that I can give my daughter the best version of a life that I can possibly give. I had no idea that by going to court, I would require permission to leave the country.
For doing what's in my daughter's best interests, we ended up trapped here.
I don't know what I would have done, if I hadn't had my parents to help me, but I can't ask them for any more than what they have given, which has already been far too much.
So, I'm turning to this. I've never wanted to ask for money or to seek out help, but I want to turn our lives around and be able to pay for the solicitor fees which are now already over £1,500 and are expected to go up by £1,000 by the end of July.
I'm not sure how I'm going to do this, but I'm going to try, so here I am, asking for help from anyone who is willing.
Organizer
Daniel Thomas Whittington
Organizer
