Members of the team specialise in general disputes about the arrangements for children, financial provision for children, and private adoption law and public law.

When parents separate, they often disagree about what should happen to children.  The courts encourage parents to agree the arrangements between them.  Failing this, it is only when parents can't agree what should happen that the courts have wide-ranging powers to intervene in the best interests of the children.

We can deal with many issues including the following:

  • parental responsibility
  • residence orders, contact, specific issue and prohibited steps orders
  • child abduction
  • applications for permission to take a child abroad
  • financial provision for children
  • change of name deeds
  • applications to remove a child from the jurisdiction permanently .

Click on the link for the procedure when dealing with the issues relating to children.

For further information or to talk to someone about a specific matter, please call a Family law team member in the office nearest you:

Christine Plews in our Oxford office on 01865 254213 or christine.plews@bllaw.co.uk.

Simon Burge in our Southampton office on 023 8085 7088 or simon.burge@bllaw.co.uk.

Fiona Wilson in our London office on 020 7814 6909 or fiona.wilson@bllaw.co.uk.

Jane Longworth in our Portsmouth office on 023 9222 1122 or jane.longworth@bllaw.co.uk

Alternatively, please email our general helpdesk on familylawinfo@bllaw.co.uk