We often receive enquiries regarding how solicitors can help with issues relating to children when relationships break down. If you are finding it difficult to agree on issues relating to children we encourage you to seek early legal advice. There are different routes you can use to reach a resolution. If Court proceedings become necessary then any Order made by a Judge will be legally binding. There are many types of Orders which relate to a child’s upbringing.
What types of Orders can the Court make in respect of children?
The Court can make different types of Orders in relation to a child for example:
Child Arrangements Order
- An Order determining who the child will live with and who the child will spend time with and how often and the type of Order which should underpin the arrangements
A Specific Issue Order
- An Order determining a particular question in relation to an aspect of Parental Responsibility
- Permission for internal relocation with the child
- Permission for external relocation with the child
- Permission for the child to remain living in the UK
- Permission to take the child on holiday out of the UK
- Permission to change the child’s name
- Petermining who holds the child’s passport
- Petermining the child’s schooling
A Prohibited Steps Order
- An Order preventing a party from exercising their Parental Responsibility
- Preventing a parent from removing the child from the UK
- Preventing a parent taking a child on holiday out of the UK
- Preventing a parent from removing the child from the other parent’s care
- Preventing a parent from retaining the child at the end of contact
- Preventing a parent from changing the child’s name
- Preventing a change of the child’s school
A Variation Order
- An Order varying an existing Child Arrangements Order, Specific Issue Order or Prohibited Steps Order
A Discharge Order
- An Order discharging an existing Child Arrangements Order, Specific Issue Order or Prohibited Steps Order
An Enforcement Order
- An Order enforcing an existing Child Arrangements Order
A Declaration of Parentage
- Determining a child’s parentage
A Parental Responsibility Order
- An Order giving Parental Responsibility to an unmarried father if the mother refuses the father to be registered or re-registered on the child’s birth certificate, or refuses to sign a Parental Responsibility Agreement
A Step-Parental Responsibility Order
- An Order giving Parental Responsibility to a person who is married to or in a civil partnership with the mother or father of the child
A Special Guardianship Order
- An Order placing a child to live with someone other than their parents and to give the ‘special guardian’ Parental Responsibility
An Order for disclosure of a child’s whereabouts
- An Order within existing proceedings that any person disclose the whereabouts of a child if the child’s whereabouts is not known
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Please note the above is for information purposes only and is intended to be a short summary. It should not be treated as a comprehensive guide and should not be acted on without qualified legal advice.
Please note the above is for information purposes only and is intended to be a short summary. It should not be treated as a comprehensive guide and should not be acted on without qualified legal advice.
