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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]17 year olds have full social lives.   If you deny this, you will never have a relationship with your child.  Life is long.  Stupid move to push yourself out. [/quote]

+1 Dad is trying to make Mom force the kid to adhere to a schedule made years ago that is most convenient to Dad, rather than finding a solution that works for both him and his son.   His son isn't an inanimate object with no preferences that he can control.[/quote]

Dad is being flexible.  OP said he switched from Friday to Saturday [b]so he gets one night twice a month[/b].  That isn't very much and kid has every other weekend and weekday to see his friends and party.  If they reduce the visitation more, he will not see his child at all.  [/quote]

OP here:

I will add, again, that this compromised "reduction" in overnights only lasts for one month.  DS doesn't have Saturday morning practices after the first month of the season.  All the other months of the school year, my ex has historically had both weekend nights - Friday and Saturday - on his two weekends.  And we only got to that point because my ex refused to take DS to those Saturday morning practices on his weekends.

My ex is now threatening to seek an emergency court hearing based on my DS's refusal to go this upcoming weekend.  I'm still hopeful I can talk DS into sticking to the schedule.

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Ok go ahead and let him do that 
If you actually make it to court you explain to the judge your DS didn’t want to go and there is no possible way to physically compel him to do so
you can further explain any other compromises you offered 
The judge is going to ask your ex why he can’t compromise 
It would be a different story if your kid was say 7 yrs old and you were refusing to take him
but a 17 yr old almost 18 - yeah they aren’t going to waste too much time on it [/quote]

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