Category: Family Law
- Family Law
How can the Local Authority remove a child from their parent’s care?
Having the Local Authority involved with your family is incredibly distressing and daunting and perhaps one of the greatest concerns that parents ...
- Family Law
What is Parental Alienation?
An issue commonly raised in the Family Court is that of parental alienation. But what exactly is it and what forms does it take? Parental ...
- Family Law
Lasting Powers of Attorney
March marks the month where thousands of people will be walking, united against dementia, to raise much needed funds for the Alzheimer’s Society. ...
- Family Law
Care proceedings and contact – Can I see my child? A summary
Where a Local Authority has started care proceedings, one of the first things a Court must decide upon is what the arrangements for the child or ...
- Family Law
Separated parents – A child’s perspective
In situations where a child or young person is unable to live with one or both of their parents, the arrangements for the child or young person to ...
- Family Law
Marriage Laws in England and Wales Out of Date – Law Commission
Currently, In England and Wales, legally recognised weddings can only take place in a church or a licensed venue with an officiant and prescribed ...
- Family Law
Home-working With Children
How should employers deal with employees wanting to work from home with their children following the school closures? Following the Government’s ...
- Family Law
Who pays the lay advocate?
In recent years, a common problem has arisen in family cases where one or more of the parties requires the assistance of an intermediary or lay ...
- Family Law
What is Parental Responsibility, who has it and how to obtain it
Parental Responsibility is a legal term which means: “all the rights, duties, powers, responsibilities and authority which by law a parent of a ...
- Family Law
Conduct and Cost Orders in Family Proceedings
The current court process for families to achieve a financial remedy order (a final order which sets out how the matrimonial assets should be shared ...