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Step-Parents: Blended rights?
Camilla Fusco and Lehna Hewitt set out the remedies available to step-parents in relation to children ‘A step-parent does not automatically obtain parental responsibility for a stepchild just by marrying or entering into a civil partnership with the child’s parent.’In a recent address to the Medico-Legal Northern Ireland Society, Lord Wilson of Culworth drew attention …
Cases Referenced
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- R v R (parental responsibility) [2011] EWHC 1535 (Fam)
- Re G (children) (residence: same-sex partner) [2006] UKHL 43
- Re S (a child) [2013] EWHC 1295 (Fam)