Phone the court or go to the court office in person.
Leave to remove applications are made by requesting a Specific Issue Order on form C100. The court office may be able to tell you if one has been filed.
Most courts will not provide answers about paperwork that has been filed in the last 10 days, so you may not have any luck.
If we find a solicitor that is willing to make this phone call, can they request and receive this information?
Or maybe phone the CAFCASS officer responsible for our case? He was very interested in finding out when he interviewed my partner but that was BEFORE she mentioned about a LTR.
To the best of my knowledge a solicitor won''t be able to do anything that you can. In this you are better off doing it yourself as it will cost nothing. Save the money for representation.
The normal process is that the other party would apply for the SIO. The court would examine this and send the application back to the applicant with a notice of proceedings and a list of questions.
The applicant then needs to serve you with the notice of proceedings, questionnaire and copy of the application.
The normal court turnaround for something like that has been about 2-3 weeks in my dealings with them.
I wouldn''t expect Cafcass to be able to help you where the court can''t. Cafcass will undoubtedly be involved in a LTR application but I don''t think they will be able to tell you anything that the court can''t.
I once asked Cafcass what date we were next in court, they told me they couldn''t disclose that information and to check my order. I was only speaking to the call centre there though so you might have a different experience.