Sentences with phrase «guardian parental responsibility for the child»

A Special Guardianship Order also gives the special guardian parental responsibility for the child.

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If, following your death, the child has a surviving parent who has parental responsibility, the appointment of your chosen guardian will not take effect for as long as there is a surviving parent.

If you appoint a guardian for your child in your Will and you then die, the appointment will take effect only if, following your death, no other parent has parental responsibility for the child.

Provided that you have parental responsibility for the child, you can name a guardian for them in your Will (you can in fact appoint a guardian without using a Will, but most parents use their Will as they intend for the appointment to take place on their death).

legal guardian An adult to whom the court has given parental responsibility and authority for a child.

2 For the purposes of this Convention, the term «parental responsibility» includes parental authority, or any analogous relationship of authority determining the rights, powers and responsibilities of parents, guardians or other legal representatives in relation to the person or the property of the child.

This meant that relative and kinship carers who had full parental responsibility for a child or young person in their care became guardians.