_MG_5351Parental Responsibility

The gov.uk website says

“All mothers and most fathers have legal rights and responsibilities as a parent – known as ‘parental responsibility’.

If you have parental responsibility, your most important roles are to:

• provide a home for the child
• protect and maintain the child

legal 500 leading firm logoIf you have parental responsibility for a child you don’t live with, you don’t necessarily have a right to contact with them – but the other parent still needs to keep you updated about their well-being and progress.

You’re also responsible for:

• disciplining the child
• choosing and providing for the child’s education
• agreeing to the child’s medical treatment
• naming the child and agreeing to any change of name
• looking after the child’s property

Parents have to ensure that their child is supported financially, whether they have parental responsibility or not”

There are lots of issues and potential disagreements contained within the above lines.

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What makes disagreements more complicated is that parents can be in dispute over different things at the same time. The Law tends to look at finance and contact/looking after problems separately. Parents tend to view all problems altogether.

If problems are left unresolved, they tend to get bigger. We can help parents to resolve these, whether through Family Mediation or by acting as a Solicitor.

We can also assist fathers who do not have Parental Responsibility to acquire it.