Re G (children) (residence: same-sex partner) [2006] UKHL 43

Private Children: A modern family

Richard Adams highlights the need for the law to accommodate less traditional family arrangements in children cases ‘From time to time there has to be a recognition that there are people in the life of a child, who do not have a biological relationship, who can nonetheless be very important indeed to the child.’The past …

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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 …

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Children: Sharing parenting

Helen Cort examines how the concepts of parental responsibility and shared residence orders are being applied to increasingly diverse family units ‘It is not incumbent upon a judge to make findings on every issue presented for determination during a hearing, but rather simply those factual issues that have implications for the decisions to be taken.’ …

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