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In a recent article in New Law Journal Kim Beatson and Victoria Brown provide an overview on Fact-finding hearings in private children proceedings. A ‘fact-finding hearing’ (FFH) is the first l...

If an individual is in breach of a court order, for example to pay the other party a sum of money, the court has discretion to refuse to hear them by making what is called a ‘Hadkinson order’. Thi...

A property adjustment order is one of the orders that the court has the power to make in determining financial arrangements on divorce, and this can include the transfer of property from one party to...

When a court is considering what order to make in respect of a child and what is in their best interests, it must consider a statutory checklist which is set out at section 1(3) of the Children Act 19...

Cases in which the court will decide to remove parental responsibility from a father are exceptional. It is almost always in a child’s best interest for their father to retain parental responsibilit...

There are wide-ranging opinions regarding the benefits and risks associated with vaccinations, as well as a considerable amount of research and academic opinion. But what happens if two parents disagr...

Have you issued a divorce petition but your spouse refuses to acknowledge it? Here is what happens after a divorce application is issued within the United Kingdom. How will my spouse be notified afte...

A Child Contact Intervention (CCI) is a short-term intervention of supervised contact, designed to assist when contact has broken down with one parent and additional assistance is required to re-estab...