Sentences with phrase «family law proceedings where»

She has recent experience acting for P in concurrent COP and Family law proceedings where a child has been born to P.

Family Code section 271, which we have explored many times before, is a statutory provision that allows family judges to sanction parties or litigants in family law proceedings where they fail to promote settlement or fail to cooperate so as to drive up costs.

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In these situations, the Crown will be less inclined to agree to bail variations and may only do so where otherwise specified in family law proceedings or where the conditions imposed on the accused are so onerous as to prevent the accused from being a productive member of society (i.e. a curfew that restricts ability to work or go to school).

Funding for private family law cases is generally only available where the applicant for legal aid can show that they are a victim of domestic abuse, or where they can show that the aim of the proceedings is to protect a child at risk of abuse from a third party (such applications are in scope because of Paras 12 and 13 of Part 1 Schedule 1 of LASPO; see also Chapter 6 of the Handbook).

Her practice covers all areas of family law, where she represents clients in mediation and arbitration proceedings, and at all levels of court in Ontario.

These benefits are particularly significant in the realm of family law, where individualized justice is key, and where parties often have an ongoing relationship as parents following the conclusion of legal proceedings.

Indeed, the «date of separation» is frequently a contested issue in family law proceedings, particularly where there is significant family property to divide.

FAMILY LAW — CHILDREN — Best interests — Where both parents seek sole parental responsibility and for the child to live with them — Where the respondent mother believes the child would settle down and accept the arrangement if the court ordered for the child to spend no time with applicant father — Where the court has a statutory mandate to make parenting orders with the child's best interests as the paramount concern — Where there is little doubt that the child would benefit from having a meaningful relationship with both parents — Where the child's clear views that he does not want to spend time with the respondent mother should be given significant weight in the circumstances — Where the child is of an age, maturity and intelligence to have principally formed his own rationally based views — Where the court is satisfied that it is in the child's best interests for the presumption of equal shared parental responsibility to be rebutted — Where the respondent father is to have sole parental responsibility and the child is to live with him — Where the applicant mother is permitted to attend certain school and sporting events of the child — Where the child should be able to instigate contact with the respondent mother as he considers appropriate to his needs and circumstances — Where the orders made are least likely to lead to the institution of further proceedings in relation to the child — Where the child is to have the outcome of these proceedings, the effect of the orders and the reasons for judgment explained to him by an expert as soon as reasonably practical.

We were one of the first law firms in the UK to adopt collaborative law, a new concept where separating couples take charge of legal proceedings for themselves and we are consistently ranked as one of the top firms for divorce law and family law by the best independent guides (Legal 500 and Chambers).

Parents and children where one or both parents have a mental illness are particularly vulnerable to the stresses of family law proceedings.