Hopkins Solicitors: Here to help you find a way forward
Having problems agreeing who your children should live with or how much contact they should have?
It's not always easy to agree on the right way forward for the care of your children following a divorce or separation.
We provide confidential legal advice and family mediation services to help you find a solution. We can also support you or the other party with applying to the Court for an Order. Types of Order include:
1. A Residence Order - this states where a child will live.
2. A Contact Order - states that the person caring for the child must make him/her available to see the person named in the Order subject to the arrangements specified.
3. A Parental Responsibility Order - a child's mother has parental responsibility from the child's birth. The birth father married to the child's mother who has registered the birth of the child on or after 1.12.03 will have parental responsibility automatically as well. Other fathers can acquire parental responsibility by applying to Court and on demonstrating:
a) Commitment to the child.
b) Attachment to the child.
c) Good reasons for applying for the Order.
4. A Specific Issue Order - makes a decision about a particular unresolved issue.
5. A Prohibited Steps Order - forbids something in relation to a child e.g. that the child may not be taken to a particular place.
We can give you expert advice to help you make sense of your options.
