Family Law Blog : Parents
Comment on divorce & family law
By Nick Wiseman, on Wednesday February 14, 2024 at 10:26 am
The rights of parents and especially fathers to spend time with their children after a couple separate can be a highly complex and emotive issue. It’s unfortunately common to hear tales of fathers who are being denied the right to access their children, leading them to question what rights they…
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By Andrew Robotham, on Tuesday August 16, 2022 at 3:05 pm
The issue of a father’s rights to spend time with his children regularly hits the headlines and we certainly hear some very unfortunate tales of fathers who are denied access to see their children when parents’ divorce or separate. Having recently represented two fathers denied contact with their children and…
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By Michelle Brammer, on Friday May 14, 2021 at 9:00 am
The divorce experience is often painful for all involved. Emotions can run high and for women, especially mothers, it’s often hard to set emotions aside and approach things in a pragmatic and dispassionate way. We’re often told by our female clients that their partners lack an emotional response, which makes…
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By Kimberley Bailey, on Wednesday July 22, 2020 at 11:27 am
The last few months have been strange, to say the least. With seemingly mixed understanding of the danger outside, the Government asked us to stay inside as much as possible and closed businesses and schools. Whilst key and essential workers carried on the majority of people were either furloughed or…
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By Kathryn McTaggart, on Tuesday March 24, 2020 at 11:48 am
As a firm we’ve been in-undated with calls and emails from separated parents begging for clarity around whether their children should be seeing both parents at the moment. The headlines are confusing, social media is scary and juggling work and home schooling is a huge ask for parents. Add to…
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By Nick Wiseman, on Thursday March 8, 2018 at 10:37 am
Archers fans may be reeling with the death of Nic Grundy, but there’s another issue that’s been exercising the minds of family lawyers in recent weeks. How are Pip Archer and Toby Fairbrother going to manage as parents? And how much of their legal responsibility they have yet come to…
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By Michelle Brammer, on Wednesday April 12, 2017 at 9:39 am
So often many amazing dads out there are far too humble about their qualities and abilities. We want to give dads – or at least one dad in particular – his time in the spotlight and give people the chance to say thanks for all the good dads out there….
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By Kathryn McTaggart, on Wednesday September 14, 2016 at 10:31 am
A shocking report in 2014 revealed that a teenager sitting their GCSEs is more likely to own a smartphone than live with their father. The Fractured Families report, from the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), also showed that a million children have no significant contact with their dads. The publication…
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By Nick Wiseman, on Wednesday May 4, 2016 at 1:00 pm
I was tempted to entitle this blog Sparkling Cyanide, sadly not a reference to a work by Agatha Christie but in fact a recent case in the family courts which illustrates how the courts become involved when parental ‘responsibility’ isn’t being exercised. The case I am referring to involved the…
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By Kimberley Bailey, on Wednesday September 2, 2015 at 1:47 pm
Co-parenting seems to be one of those latest buzz word that is pretty irrelevant to most couples – until that is they separate or divorce. Once a family is divided, by the fact that the two parents live apart, co-parenting takes on a whole new dimension and create so many…
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By Woolley & Co, on Thursday September 18, 2014 at 9:00 am
We have spent the last two weeks encouraging people to put Children First in divorce. In a final blog of this dedicated campaign, our lawyers list some of their key advice from years of experience of helping families through separation. Over the last two weeks, we have been signposting a…
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By Ian Giddings, on Tuesday August 5, 2014 at 9:00 am
Making arrangements to take your children on holiday after a divorce is not always plain sailing, but there are some simple rules to follow to make things easier. School’s out for the summer. If not booked already, then a holiday, either close to home or on a foreign shore, is…
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