Family Law News

There is an urgent need for more foster carers for teenagers across Scotland, new research from the Fostering Network has found.

Tags: Foster Care, Children In Care, Taken Into Care, Child Custody, Child Contact, Child Custody Advice Lawyers Falkirk, Edinburgh Family Law Advice

New figures published by the Department for Work and Pensions show that, in each one of the UK's 650 parliamentary constituencies, child maintenance arrears owed to parents with main care of children is now at least £1million.

Tags: Child Maintenance Payments, Child Custody Arrangements, Divorce, Edinburgh Lawyers Child Maintenance Advice, Kirkcaldy Family Lawyers, Edinburgh Family Law Solicitors

Recent research from CHILDREN 1ST has found that the financial support kinship carers receive in Scotland can vary, depending on where they live.

Tags: Kinship Care, Children In Care, Child Custody, Child Contact, Child Custody Advice Lawyers Edinburgh, Edinburgh Family Lawyers

The Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission, which is responsible for the functions of the Child Support Agency (CSA), has published the latest statistics on CSA operations. The CSA is responsible for tracing non-resident parents, working out how much child maintenance they should pay and collecting and enforcing payments.

Tags: Child Maintenance Payments, Child Support Payments, Child Maintenance Arrears, Child Maintenance Advice Edinburgh, Family Lawyers Edinburgh

The Fostering Network has warned the Scottish Government that if it fails to give fostered children proper financial support then these children will not have their essential needs met.

Tags: Foster Care, Foster Carers, Children In Care, Child Custody, Child Contact, Child Custody Advice Falkirk, Child Custody Advice Lawyers Falkirk

A new report by think tank Policy Exchange has said that fathers who no longer live with their partners and are on benefits should be made to work if they refuse to take financial responsibility for their children.

Tags: Child Maintenance Advice Lawyers Edinburgh, Child Maintenance Advice Edinburgh, Non-Resident Parent, Custodial Parent, Child Support Payments, Child Maintenance Payments

The NSPCC is calling on the Scottish Government to strengthen its commitment to early intervention by putting Scotland’s youngest children at the heart of its forthcoming mental health strategy, as new figures show that the number of young children taken into care is the highest for more than ten years.

Tags: Children In Care, Foster Care, Child Custody, Child Contact, Child Custody Advice Dunfermline, Child Custody Advice Lawyers Dunfermline

Coram Children’s Legal Centre (CCLC), which specialises in law and policy affecting children and young people, has spoken out against the government's proposed reforms to the child maintenance system.

Tags: Child Maintenance Arrangements, Child Support Payments, Child Custody, Single Parent Families, Child Maintenance Payments Advice Edinburgh, Child Maintenance Payments Advice Lawyers Edinburgh

A French woman has been awarded custody of her ten-year-old daughter, who has been living in Saudi Arabia with her father, a Saudi prince, for the past three and a half years, reports the Telegraph.

Tags: Child Custody Arrangements Advice Lawyers Edinburgh, Child Custody Arrangements Advice Edinburgh, Divorce, International Child Abduction, Child Custody Arrangements, Child Custody Battle

The second and final part of the Sixth Special Commission to review the practical operation of the 1980 Hague Child Abduction and 1996 Hague Child Protection Conventions has concluded in The Hague.

Tags: Child Custody Advice Lawyers Edinburgh, Child Custody Advice Edinburgh, Child Custody, Parental Abduction, International Child Abduction, Child Protection

The Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission has published the latest Child Support Agency (CSA) performance statistics.

Tags: Child Maintenance Payments, Child Support Payments, Child Custody, Child Maintenance Advice Dunfermline, Child Maintenance Advice Lawyers Dunfermline

There has been a large increase in the number of children abducted by one of their parents, according to reunite International Child Abduction Centre. Latest figures show a 47% increase in calls to the charity's advice line.

Tags: International Child Abduction, Parental Abduction, Child Custody, Child Contact, Child Abduction Advice Edinburgh, Child Abduction Advice Lawyers Edinburgh

A recent report from the U.S. Census Bureau has revealed that in 2009, 41.2% of custodial parents received the full amount of child support owed them, down from 46.8% in 2007. The proportion of these parents who were owed child support payments and who received any amount at all — either full or partial — declined from 76.3% to 70.8% over the period.

Tags: Child Maintenance, Child Support Payments, Child Custody, Child Contact, Child Support Advice Edinburgh, Child Support Advice Lawyers Edinburgh

New research shows separated parents who work out their own child maintenance arrangements are more satisfied with their set-up than those using the Child Support Agency (CSA).

Tags: Child Maintenance, Child Support, Child Custody, Child Maintenance Arrangements Advice Edinburgh, Child Maintenance Arrangements Advice Lawyers Edinburgh

The Scottish Government has recently launched a consultation exercise on improving advocacy for children and young people.

Tags: Child Advocacy, Children's Hearings, Child Protection, Family Law Advice Falkirk

The latest Child Support Agency figures show that just over 876,000 children were benefiting from child maintenance payments at the end October, up by 7,400 on the previous quarter.

Tags: Child Maintenance Advice Lawyers Edinburgh, Child Maintenance Advice Edinburgh, Child Custody, Child Support, Child Maintenance

A Policy Development Unit has been launched by the Community Law Advice Network (cl@n childlaw ) charity, which will help to build an evidence base for shaping the representation, advice and support offered to young people who come into contact with the law.

Tags: Children In Care, Child Law, Looked After Children, Child Law Advice Edinburgh, Child Law Advice Lawyers Edinburgh

The Scottish Government has launched a consultation seeking views on the draft Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 (Rules) 2012.

Tags: Children's Hearings Advice Lawyer Edinburgh, Children's Hearings Advice Edinburgh, Child Welfare, Children's Reporter, Children's Hearings

The Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration (SCRA) has recently published its Annual  Report for 2010/11, which shows that for the fourth year running there has been a fall (7.8%) in the number of children and young people being referred to its service.

Tags: Child Welfare, Children's Reporter, Child Protection, Children's Reporter Advice Edinburgh, Children's Reporter Advice Lawyers Edinburgh

A non-legislative resolution passed by the European Parliament has called upon members states to provide more support for single mothers.

Tags: Family Lawyers Advice Edinburgh, Family Law Advice Edinburgh, Child Maintenance, Single Mothers, Single Parent Families