Category: Family Law
- Family Law
What is a Deputyship & who can apply?
The past year has thrown us all many a curve ball and lots of people have contracted Covid 19, and sadly some are still living with the long-term ...
- 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
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Marriage Laws in England and Wales Out of Date – Law Commission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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...