Our Help Guide 4 will take you through and educate you on many aspects of child arrangements & child proceedings so you feel in control and on top of things, especially if you are a litigant in person (an individual involved in court proceedings and is not represented by a solicitor or barrister).

Please note child arrangements was previously known as child custody, child access, residence arrangements, and child contact. 

• BOX 1 – This webpage will give you pre-child proceedings guidance. It is very important to read this webpage before you embark upon any child proceedings.
• BOX 2 –  Will go into details about court orders and court hearings. 
• BOX 3 – Here we will give you a complete guide of child arrangements after a family breakdown such as divorce or separation. We will go over do it yourself child arrangements, child arrangements with mediation help and child arrangements by going through the court process.
• BOX 4 – In this guide we will go over all aspects of child arrangements that involve guardianship, wardship, fostering, kinship care, young carers, residential care and adoption.
• BOX 5 – Here we will give you a thorough insight into single parenting, step parenting, and co-parenting. We will also discuss alienation and the child.
• BOX 6 – It would be a sin not to discuss child contact and child custody for grandparents and the wider family. Here we will go over what grandparents and other members of the family need to do to get contact and/or custody. 
• BOX 7 – Here we will take you through how to sort out child maintenance.
• BOX 8 – This guide is concerned with child arrangements for looked after children(children in care).
• BOX 9 – Here we will explain all the methods available to you to send your documents and files to the family court.

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