Child arrangements

He was born but he didn’t ask to be. When you hit him, he didn’t ask you to. When you ignored him for the first 6 years of his life, he came to terms with it. When you said you wanted contact with him, he went along with it. When you left him sat in […]

CAFCASS, an acronym for the Children And Family Court Advisory and Support Service. The service reports to the Courts on the safeguarding and welfare of children in public and private law family proceedings. So, what does that mean? If your uncoupling involves children, then CAFCASS Family Court Advisors[...]

How can you possibly know? That is amongst the first questions I get from a new client. Whether I am sitting with a client seeking counselling through Daniel Picave or family court support through McKenzie Picave, the process opens in the same place. I meet them face to face and we chat for an hour.[...]

Child Arrangements Order – a Court Order detailing where a child should live and with whom. It also details who else spends time with the child and when. This Order is the final stage of child proceedings in the Family Court. It gives parents the framework within which they will manage their child’s[...]