At Crisp & Co, our extensive knowledge of family law has benefited many families in London and beyond to ensure the welfare of their children is protected no matter what.
Whether it’s regarding parental separation and living arrangements, adoption or childcare, you can rely on our expert child law solicitors to find solutions that suit the specific needs of your children.
When parents choose to separate, it can be a challenging time for their children. In a perfect world, both parties would reach an agreement regarding arrangements quickly and painlessly, with no legal battles and no court orders. However, due to the emotional nature of divorce or dissolution, this is not always possible. At Crisp & Co, our specialist child law solicitors have helped many separating couples to make critical decisions regarding their children with minimal costs and time involved.
When relations break down between you and your partner, protecting your children is our priority. Our experience and expertise in family law best places us to advise and represent you across all aspects of child care and upbringing; whether it’s regarding visitation rights, financial arrangements or the influence either parent has over the decisions that will shape their child’s life. Our child law solicitors are completely dedicated to ensuring the needs of your children are met regardless of how difficult the circumstances may be.
Legal arrangements can be daunting for children, particularly when they are too young to understand the concept of parental separation. Even into their teenage years, the sudden upset to family life caused by divorce can be emotionally challenging.
Our child law solicitors are highly trained in resolving disputes as efficiently and seamlessly as possible, always opting for peaceful routes to resolution that minimise the fallout of divorce. However, where alternative dispute resolution techniques such as mediation are not sufficient in protecting your child from harm, we will not hesitate in taking firm legal action to ensure your child is safe.
Contact our child law solicitors
If you would like to access support with child law today, please get in touch with our expert child law solicitors at Crisp & Co.
You can call us on 0330 013 0381 or contact your local Crisp & Co office.
Our child law services
Adoption
If you are considering adopting a child, our expert adoption solicitors at Crisp & Co can provide all the advice and support that you will need. Specifically, we can offer advice on parental responsibility, and help to apply for adoption, and obtain an Adoption Order.
To discuss you needs, please get in touch with a member of our friendly team.
Child Arrangements Orders
If you are going through a divorce, and you have children, we can help you to obtain a Child Arrangements Order. These orders are used to determine how child care and contact in the aftermath of divorce or dissolution.
We can help you to negotiate where your child will live, and how much time they will spend with each of their parents. Where possible, we will help you to arrange these matters out of Court. If this is not a viable option, we can guide you through the necessary Court proceedings.
Child Custody
Child residency, formerly known as child custody, is one of the key issues to decide on when parents divorce, or go through a civil partnership dissolution.
Issues of child custody can often be contentious, and so working with legal experts is well advised. Our children law solicitors can support you to resolve these issues as quickly as possible, protecting your interests and those of your child.
Child Maintenance Agreements
When parents divorce, or dissolve their civil partnership, child maintenance is usually paid by the parent who will no longer be living with the child (non-resident parent), to the parent who will be mainly living with the child (resident parent).
If you need advice and support with child maintenance in the aftermath of a separation, please get in touch with our specialist child maintenance solicitors.
At Crisp & Co, we have much experience providing child law advice, and can happily answer all of your questions.
Grandparents’ Rights Solicitors
If you are a grandparent who is struggling to access their grandchildren, for instance due to family conflict, we can support you.
Though grandparents do not automatically have the right to have contact with their grandchildren, we can assist you to secure this right and/or resolve any related disputes you are having. We have much experience helping families, much of the time we can help clients to solve these matters out of Court.
To discuss how we can help today, contact our grandparents’ rights solicitors.
Parental Alienation
Parental alienation means that one parent has deliberately manipulated their child so that they show disrespect, fear or hostility towards the other parent.
Facing this situation can be incredibly distressing, thankfully, family courts take parental alienation seriously. If these are your circumstances, we can provide advice and support, helping you to better your situation.
Parental Responsibility
Our expert solicitors at Crisp & Co can provide advice on parental rights, and help you to obtain parental responsibility if you do not already have this legal status. For example, those who are adopting a child, or having a child through a surrogate are likely to require this type of support.
To learn more about how we can help with parental responsibility matters, please get in touch.
Prohibited Steps Orders
Sometimes, divorced or separated parents will disagree about a certain aspect of a child’s upbringing. Not all of these disputes are easily solved, and so you might find that your case requires legal intervention.
If you need to, we can help you to obtain a Prohibited Steps Order, preventing your child’s other parent from making decisions about your child’s upbringing that you are opposed to. For instance, you might wish to stop your ex-partner from relocating overseas with your child, or from allowing your child to receive certain medical treatment.
To discuss prohibited steps orders, or access any other type of child law advice, contact our experts today.
Same Sex Parenting Solicitors
Our same sex parenting solicitors have much experience supporting same sex couples across a wide range of parenting issues, including:
- Surrogacy for same sex couples
- Egg and sperm donation for same sex couples
- LGBT co-parenting arrangements
We understand that parenting issues can sometimes feel confusing, and are committed to providing straight forward and sensitive support to suit your circumstances.
Contact our child law solicitors
If you would like to access support with child law today, please get in touch with our expert child law solicitors at Crisp & Co.
You can call us on 0330 013 0381 or contact your local Crisp & Co office.