Children

An order enabled under Section 12 of the Children and Families Act 2014 which replaced and combined the old orders for Contact and Residence in Section 8 of the Children Act 1989, determining with whom and when a child will live or have contact. The wording of the Act gives the courts considerable flexibility in the drafting of an order and is designed to eliminate any suggestion of winners and losers by conferring a status on the resident or custodial parent that the contact or access parent lacks.

This useful article has been written by Wikivorce member Forseti.

A brief account of the new Child Arrangements Programme

A brief guide to the new legislation.

Whether you can take your child abroad on holiday is one of the most common questions separated parents ask.

An explanation of Shared Parenting

Some thoughts on post-separation parenting written by a separated parent.