A contact order basically requires the person the child is living with to allow the child to stay or visit the person bearing the said order, or at least for the bearer and the child to keep in touch. A contact order is usually brought up when two parents cannot agree on the type of contact...

Practice Guidance: McKenzie Friends (Civil and Family Courts) LORD NEUBERGER MR AND SIR NICHOLAS WALL P 12 JULY 2010 Practice – Trial – Party acting in person – Right to assistance – McKenzie friend – Scope of right to assistance – Guidance. Cases referred to in practice...

Appeals Practice direction 30a 2010   deal with appeals. The Practice Direction comes into effect on the 6th April, the same day as the Rules generally. They set out the routes of appeal: namely that appeals from District Judges in either the family proceedings court or the county...

This Practice Direction supplementing the Family Procedure Rules 2010 is made by the President of the Family Division under the powers delegated to   him by the Lord Chief Justice under Schedule 2, Part 1 paragraph 2(2) of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005. and is approved by the...

The Practice Direction below is made by the President of the Family Division under the powers delegated to him by the Lord Chief Justice under Schedule 2, Part 1, paragraph 2(2) of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, and is approved by Bridget Prentice, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, by...

    Practice Guidance: McKenzie Friends (Civil and Family Courts) 1) This Guidance applies to civil and family proceedings in the Court of Appeal (Civil Division), the High Court of Justice, the County Courts and the Family Proceedings Court in the Magistrates’ Courts. 1 It...

   in Re K (Children) [2011] EWCA Civ 793 on 7 July 2011.  It was a welcome opportunity to consider the application of Payne v Payne [2001] EWCA Civ 166 in international relocation cases following criticism of the authority both at home and abroad.  What followed was the...

After a Section 91(14) has been granted, a person would need to gain permission to bring action to court. In this case, an application would be made to a court for the order to be lifted. This would be tested against a number of criteria to determine the outcome of the permission...

JUMPJewishParentingPlansBooklet-FINAL15Dec06PlansTemplate.pdf (83,5 kB) or the caffcass website parenting plan   https://www.cafcass.gov.uk/PDF/FINAL%20web%20version%20251108.pdf

  F (Children) [2010] EWCA Civ 1428 Consideration of the test to be applied for ‘internal relocation’, ie cases where the primary carer wishes to relocate within the United Kingdom. The mother sought permission to relocate the four children aged 14, 12, 11 and 9 from Cleveland to the...