Coronavirus – Child Arrangements Guidance on Compliance with Family Court Child Arrangement Orders The President of the Family Division has published some very helpful Guidance for separated families, to bolster the position regarding the ‘Stay at...Read MoreTags: contact, coronavirus, child arrangements
Covert Operations As practitioners, we are often asked whether a parent can or should make recordings of conversations with the other party or even the child in the context of an ongoing dispute over arrangements for their child. The motives for a parent wanting to...Read MoreTags: children, contact, children act, cafcass, custody, recording
Obsessively Compulsive The Eurovision Song Contest is now over and we are all looking forward to the holidays. Some families are already on holiday and the rest are looking forward to the summer holiday traffic (not). In England we see apparently a new generation of...Read MoreTags: divorce, family law, fixed fee, legal advice, paradigm family law, children, contact, international, survey
Packing your Case The number of cases involving the courts and child arrangements is on the rise. The National Audit office recently published statistics showing a 22% increase in cases involving children contact arrangements, and a 30% increase in cases where neither...Read MoreTags: holiday, family law, legal advice, paradigm family law, york, family, children, contact, separated
In this post, Head of International Family Law at Paradigm Family Law, Frank Arndt discusses jurisdictional issues – a topic that is generating a great deal of interest at the moment: I recently wrote a post about Art 15 BIIR and the importance of...Read MoreTags: jurisdiction, divorce, family law, fixed fee, legal advice, paradigm family law, york, family, children, contact, international