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Child Arrangement Orders

Child Arrangement Solicitors based in Sheffield, Barnsley & Rotherham

Our experienced children’s law solicitors in Sheffield, Rotherham, and Barnsley understand that your children are your primary concern. Making arrangements for your child if you and your partner separate can be a difficult thing to do.

 

Our team of solicitors are part of one of the largest family law teams in the north of England. The team are accredited in the Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners as one of the top family law firms in Yorkshire. They are accredited by the Law Society, and have many positive client reviews, and are one of the top rated law firm in the UK on Review Solicitors for family law solicitors. They are consistently praised for their empathetic communication, always making time to listen to and guide their clients.

 

We have years of experience helping parents with a number of applications involving child arrangement orders, including: 

 

– Child Custody

– Shared Custody

– Residence Orders

– Contact Orders

 

Family Law Solicitors Rotherham

Are you Eligible for Legal Aid?

Legal aid is available in a wide variety of circumstances for family members when social care are involved with children.

On your initial contact, we can assess your circumstances and advise you as to your eligibility for legal aid. Our Children Law solicitors can help give advice, explain the Public Law Outline Process (PLO), offer confidential legal advice, and they can represent you in Care Proceedings at Court. We can also support you if you receive a letter before proceedings to help explain concerns social services may have and attend at the PLO Meeting with you.

Contact us or call us on 0114 2496693 to book your appointment today and we will be happy to assess you and advise you as to your eligibility of legal aid.

 

What is a Child Arrangement Order?

A child arrangement order determines where your children will live and how much time they should spend with the non-resident parent until they are 18 years old. Generally, child arrangement orders are made when an agreement is unable to be made through mediation. 

 

What is the Difference Between a Residence Order and a Contact Order?

Residence orders and contact orders have been combined to create the child arrangements order, which means that whoever the child lives with and who they spend time with is detailed in one order, rather than two. 

Most cases result in the child living primarily with one parent and the other will spend time with the child at regular, pre-planned intervals and this will be negotiated with the help of your solicitor. In some instances, it is possible for the child to spend equal time with both parents, which is known as joint custody. However, there are factors that the court will have to take into consideration for this to work, for example, would it be practical for the child to move regularly between homes. 

The court’s primary concern is the welfare of the child and our expert children solicitors are here to help you achieve the best outcome. 

Contact us or call us on 0114 2496693 to book your appointment today.

 

Child Maintenance 

All parents have a responsibility to provide financial support for their children – this doesn’t matter whether they have contact with them. Child maintenance consists of regular payments provided to support the child’s living costs and is payable by the parent who the child is not resident with. However, if you have joint custody, this arrangement will differ.

Child Arrangement Orders Frequently Asked Questions

The length of a child’s arrangement order depends on a number of factors. There are no standard time frames, but we usually advise it could take between 6 and 12 months to achieve a final order.

The court encourages a parent to spend time with a child as long as it’s in the child’s best interest. If the other parent has stopped you from seeing your child, then you should seek advice from a solicitor as they will be able to negotiate arrangements between you and the other parent.

If you break a child arrangement order you may be made to do unpaid work or pay compensation. In extreme cases, you may also be held be in Contempt of Court, imprisoned or fined.

How can we help? Contact us today

Contact us on 0114 24966693 and one of our advisors will be in touch to discuss your situation. We will take some initial information and if we can help, we will book you in for a consultation with a legal professional.

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Legal aid is available in a wide variety of circumstances for family members when social care are involved with children. Contact us or call us on 0114 2496693 to book your appointment today and we will be happy to assess you and advise you as to your eligibility of legal aid.

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Solicitors for Child Arrangement Orders

The Howells Children Law team is one of the best in the country and one of the largest in the north of England.  The team have been consistently highly ranked for family work in the north from the Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners. They also have many positive client reviews, and are one of the top rated law firm in the UK on Review Solicitors for family law solicitors.

The children law team are part of the Howells family law team, who are supervised by our family law solicitor and director John Clegg. John is a family law specialist and covers all aspects of family law including divorce, civil partnership and cohabitation breakdown, financial matters arising on separation and divorce, pre and post-nuptial agreements and protection from domestic abuse. John is also accredited as one of the top solicitors in the UK by the prestigious Chambers and Partners.

 

The children law team are managed by senior solicitor and head of children law Charlotte Curbishley who deals with all  children law matters, specialising in advising and representing parents, children, and family members at public law proceedings. Charlotte is also on Law Society Children Panel.

 

Client Testimonials

“Amazing service brilliant and professional I highly recommend Howells especially in family law cases, Charlotte is an amazing solicitor she is professional, and understanding and caring she makes her clients voices heard and she wins.”

“Helpful from start to finish helped me reach the outcome I wanted would highly recommend.”

“Such a great help.”

“As a parent I had great fear of losing my child at this stage of PLO, however Howells Solicitor took my matter almost personally not just like a number. I felt safe and confident that she had my best honest interest, and I was guided well at every stage of my complex case.”

“I had Stephanie for the last few months of my court case, she was absolutely amazing at what she did! Steph explained everything in detail to me, she also reassured me any time I needed it, an all-round great solicitor, thank you for all your help.”

“Fantastic very professional a pleasure to talk to and explained everything in plain English and I would definitely recommend.”

“Can’t recommend enough.”

“Handled everything to a level higher than what I would expect and kept me focused and objective which dealing with my health issues was Brilliant.”

 

Chambers UK

“Increasingly active in dealing with high-net-worth cases and child abduction cases over the past year. Bolstered by a designated mediation and collaborative law group.”

 

Legal 500

“Howells handles the full spectrum of matrimonial work and children law matters. Alyson Siddall is ‘hugely experienced but always still keen to learn’ and heads the department which benefits from individuals based across Sheffield, Rotherham, and Barnsley. Siddall is regularly instructed in complex financial arrangements and has additional expertise in private children matters and collaborative law.”

Deborah Thompson

01226 805 190
Laura Hill

Family Law

0114 249 6638
Stephanie Cundy

Children Law

01226 805 190
Emily Shaw

0114 249 6693
Sara Wildsmith

Children Law

0114 249 6646
Helen Timlin

Children Law

0114 249 6792
Daniel Wood

Children Law

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