Children

The thirtieth anniversary of the Children Act As I reported here back in March, this year marks the thirtieth anniversary of the Children Act. As I said then, the Act changed the legal landscape when it came to dealing with children issues, bringing in new concepts and ways of dealing with those issues that we […] More

Parental alienation cases in the news Parental alienation cases continue to be in the news. I wrote here and here back in October about two such cases. Now a third has just been published, albeit that the case actually took place back in January of this year (the publication was delayed pending a final hearing). […] More

Child arrangements order application unfairly dismissed in the recent case G v M (FHDRA Appeal). I often mention here the pressure put upon the family courts by the seemingly ever-increasing number of private law children application they have to deal with. Inevitably, this can mean that cases are not given enough time to be properly […] More

Should a redundancy payment be treated as part of an NRP’s current income for the purpose of assessing child support liability? It must be a very common scenario whereby a non-resident parent (‘NRP’) receives a redundancy payment. As the payment, or at least part of it, is designed to be compensation for loss of income, […] More

Father appeals child arrangements order made to permit the mother to take a child on holiday A typical case? Apart from the fact that the parties, or at least the father, appear to be rather better off than the average litigant, the case X v Y (Child Arrangements Order) is in many ways typical of […] More