Re L (A Child: Step-Parent Adoption) – Family Law Week case summary.
A father’s unsuccessful attempt to appeal against an adoption order in favour of the child’s step-father.
A father’s unsuccessful attempt to appeal against an adoption order in favour of the child’s step-father.
A local authority’s application not to assess a grandmother as a carer was granted and the grandmother’s application for a Special Guardianship Order or a Child Arrangements Order was dismissed.
A successful appeal resulting in the interim placement of a baby in foster care pending the full hearing.
A husband’s unsuccessful second appeal in possession proceedings which depended upon the proper interpretation of a Consent Order in financial remedy proceedings.
A wife’s successful appeal from an order allowing a husband’s appeal against a maintenance pending suit order.
An application to adopt A who had attained her majority.
The judge made findings of the parents’ collusion and that there was a real possibility they had overlaid the child causing an asphyxial event.
A father’s unsuccessful application to transfer the welfare stage of care proceedings to Romania.