My Ex Is Trying To Block My Access To Our Dd (16f) In A Mental Health Facility.

My (39m) ex and I (39f) have a HC co-parenting relationship. Our custody agreement is 1 week on, 1 week off. Sundays at 6 to Sunday at 6. Holidays rotate. Our daughter (16f) threatened to take her own life this week and I rushed her to the ER where she was admitted, placed on a 1013, and transferred to a mental health facility.

I kept my ex up-to-date the entire process and she and her current husband joined us at the ER. We worked well together, I thought, in the best interests of our daughter. We discussed it and agreed that if I heard anything I would keep her informed and she would do the same.

Yesterday, I received a call from one of the doctors first thing in the morning and immediately notified the ex. Again, we discussed keeping one another informed.

Last night, I attempted to call the facility to speak with my daughter and was told that I could not b/c she had already had her one phone call. I had not been informed she could only have one call nor had I been told there was a specific time for the call.

I called my ex and she said, “yes, I talked to her…” and then she threw in there had been an additional call from the social worker AND that there is going to be a conference call on Wednesday. When I asked, “what happened to keeping one another informed?” She said, “I was going to get around to it.”

First thing this morning I called the facility and was informed that my ex had blocked them from speaking to me by saying that she has power to make medical decisions per our divorce decree. This is, in fact, true in non-emergency medical situations such as routine health care: vaccines, yearly physicals, dental exams, etc. But THIS was a life-threatening situation. It was in fact an emergency.

Our decree states that the parent with physical custody, at the time, has medical decision making power in an emergency situation. And that’s what happened. DD was with me, made a viable threat, and I acted accordingly.

Now my ex has told the mental health facility that she has medical authority per the decree and the facility has stop speaking with me. I have emailed them the decree, but it says she has non-emergency medical decision making power. However, it also says the physical custodial parent has emergency medical decision making power. It also states that we are to collaborate with one another in regard to major medical decisions.

DD was in my custody, it was an emergency, I acted in good faith, included my ex, and it is still my parenting time, but ex has cut me out of communication with the mental health facility. Does she have the legal right to do this? Or is she required to include me? How do I get the facility to acknowledge this? Because the ex is going to keep doing everything she can to ice me out… Location: Georgia, USA.