Following a divorce or separation of parents the parents or the courts usually make decisions on which parent will have custody of the child and when the children will see the other parent which is also known as child arrangements. Many parents fail to understand that if they breach court orders then this could have […]

Under the UK law grandparents do not have any rights over their grandchildren. However family courts do recognise the invaluable role that grandparents have to play in their grandchildren’s lives and the court can assist in gaining access to grandchildren via a contact order for grandparents. Often grandparents may choose to act as guardians of […]

Child maintenance is designed to make parents responsible for maintaining their children. Non-resident parents make periodical payments to resident parents for the day to day care and upbringing of their children. These payments are usually applicable once parents have separated or undergone divorce. Our team of family law experts specialise in all aspects of child […]

Cafcass is Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service and they get involved in  child act proceedings once an application has been submitted to the family court. The role of Cafcass is to safeguard and promote the welfare of children by considering their needs, wished and feeling in child cases. The court usually asks […]

How can a father put himself on the birth certificate depends on whether the mother agrees to the request. Many fathers are in the unfortunate circumstances where their name does not appear on the child’s birth certificate. The consequences of this is that a father does not have any legal rights over their child unless […]

Many fathers following separation or divorce often hold the opinion that English Law favours mothers when matters concerning child contact and child custody arise. This often leads many fathers to believe that they do not have any rights to seeing their children. A father living in the UK is entitled to have a say in […]

Many couple who are unable to conceive any children usually rely on adoption in order to complete their family and to allow them the opportunity to care for a child. We consider an unfortunate situation in which a Sikh couple were unsuccessful in fertility treatment and made an application for child adoption. Sikh couple refused […]

For many parent’s divorce and separation is often a difficult and traumatic time. Generally parents would like to continue to be a part of their child’s life and would like contact with between the children and non-resident to continue. Contact determines the days and times a parent will see their children and the length of […]

The general rule in England and Wales is that costs follow the event. This is where the loser is to pay the costs of the winner. However, this principle does not apply to family law cases. Under the Family Procedure Rules of 2010 r. 28.1 the court may at any time make such an order […]

It is emotional for parents who have undergone divorce or separation when their children are separated from them and they lose custody. What gets even more difficult for parents is when they are living away from their children in separate parts of the world. We consider the case of Ford v Khalil & Another (2018) […]