Leave To Remove: A storm in a tea cup?

Chrissie Cuming Walters contemplates Re K one year on and recent government proposals on parental rights It has been nearly a year since the Court of Appeal handed down its judgment in Re K (Children) [2011] – a judgment initially seen as a potential game-changer in relation to leave to remove applications, if not somewhat …
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Leave To Remove: No more Payne

Rachel Osgood looks at the impact of MK v CK on the guidelines in Payne v Payne on leave to remove ‘In considering the controversy surrounding Payne, Moore-Bick LJ suggested that it arose as a result of the failure to distinguish clearly between legal principle and guidance.’If you asked a family lawyer in recent years …
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Shared Residence: Fair shares

David Hodson recounts the history of shared residence orders and considers future developments ‘Shared residence means equality of parenting in the eyes of the children, the eyes of the law and the eyes of third parties with whom parents have dealings.’In the beginning, or at least in the 1980s, three dinosaurs roamed the post-parental separation …
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