Children’s Matters

Our children are precious and when our family unit experiences changes of any kind our first worry is always our children.

At RJS we can offer guidance as to the living arrangements for your children and the financial arrangements for them into the future.

Many issues arise about our children. Each case are individual; however, we have summarised a few of the most common situations - all of which RJS can assist you with:

  • Arrangements relating to children’s residence and parental contact (Please see scroll down and see below)

  • Special children’s guardianships

  • Child / children adoption

  • Advice on parental orders and parents rights

  • Child / Children emergency matters

  • Child maintenance payments

Children’s Contact Issues to include International Relocation Matters

RSJ Family Law has considerable experience with all child contact issues - to include those where relocation, whether in the UK or overseas, could or is limiting the amount of contact your children have with you.

Rachel McGrath is a qualified solicitor in Australia and she and her team have a considerable experience in international relocation matters.

RJS Family Law are able to deal with such issues to include:

  • Your ex partner stopping you from seeing your children

  • Your ex partner dictating to you as to when you can see the children

  • Your ex partner taking the children and you don’t know where they are

  • Your ex partner threatening to remove the children to the other side of the country or overseas

  • You want to relocate to another country with the children but your ex partner refuses to consent?

At RJS Family Law, we are happy to discuss how we can help your individual situation; please get in touch.

  • Children Act Proceedings are necessary when parents simply can’t agree on arrangements for a child or children. Such matters are something that RJS Family Law are experts in.

    A divorced father recently came to RJS Family Law with serious concerns about the wishes of his ex-wife regarding her requests whilst their child was in his care as well as his phone contact with their child – whilst in the care of the child’s mother.

    The mother was trying to impose high levels of control over our client. She was not only trying to control where our client could take their child – whilst in his care, but also, who their child could come into contact with as well as her demand that she be able to speak to their child for an hour every night!

    Naturally, our client felt – as indeed we did – that such demands were both repressive, unfair, and not necessarily in the best interests of the child. We therefore advised our client to refuse such requests on the grounds that they were unreasonable.

    With our client’s ex refusing to back down, the matter went to court. The court stated that since our client had parental responsibility, he was entitled to spend his time with their child as he saw fit. He was a responsible parent and perfectly capable of making parenting decisions and more importantly, perfectly capable of keeping their child safe.

    The court also echoed our beliefs that speaking to their child every night, whilst their child was with our client, was intrusive and unnecessary and deemed as being more disruptive to their child than a benefit.

    Due to RJS Family Law’s extensive experience in children’s matters and the subsequent advice given to our client, the court made an order that the child spend -end of week – with our client with no restrictions on what he can do or where they can go.

    For further information on the Children’s Act and assistance with child contact matter, get in

    touch with rachel@...........