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Child Maintenance Payments: Your Entitlement
If you are the parent of a child, or children, and are raising them on your own you are entitled to claim child support payments from the non resident parent...
Child Support and the Children Act 1989
The Children Act 1989 is a very commonly used piece of legislation in family law. It was introduced to incorporate the United Nations Convention on the Right...
Child Support and the Family Law Act 1996
The Family Law Act was introduced in order to revolutionise the divorce process in this country. Amongst other things, it tried to abolish the notion of ‘f...
Child Support and the Human Rights Act 1998
The Human Rights Act provides a number of fundamental rights and freedoms that UK citizens are entitled to enjoy by law, unless those rights are expressly or...
Child Support Law and Parental Responsibility
Parental responsibility refers to the rights and privileges that unite the relationship between a parent and their child. This can also apply to any signific...
CMS Complaints, Appeals and Tribunals
Many lone parent families rely on periodic maintenance support in order to be able to provide all the necessary things a growing child requires. The Child Ma...
Divorce and the Law Regarding Payments
When a couple are separating or divorcing a great deal of stress and concern will be created as a direct result of worrying about finances. Couples will have...
Legal Rights for Separating Parents
When the bombshell hits you – that you and your partner are separating – you might feel a whole tangle of emotions: upset, anger, hurt, bitterness and be...
Seeking Child Support Representation
Applying for Child Support appears to be a simple enough process. Parents with care can provide relevant details online or directly to Child Support Agency (...
The Different Types of Contact Orders
What is a contact order...? Well, this is an order that determines which family members a child should have regular meetings with. That order will usually sp...
The Law and Single Fathers
Unless a single father has a Parental Responsibility Agreement or Order he has few legal rights, regarding his children. A single father does however have th...
The Law and Single Mothers
A mother has parental responsibility for her child and is generally expected to become the parent with care, in the event of a separation or divorce. Whilst...
What Are Parents' Rights on Separation?
The break up of a relationship is always stressful and can leave one or both parents feeling lost, hurt and bewildered. When you separate from the other pare...
Your Legal Rights as a Parent
Losing full-time contact with a child is a difficult and painful outcome of any separation or divorce. The parent who retains day-to-day care of the child ma...