Same-sex parenting News

What is Parental Responsibility? Parental Responsibility (PR) is the power given to individuals to make important decisions in relation to the children they hold PR for. These decisions include welfare issues, medical treatment, education of the child, changing of the child’s name, taking the child outside the jurisdiction. Under S3(1)...

Family law solicitor Emma Sherrington and Trainee Solicitor Bethany Lodge give insight into the new law which changes the legal age for marriage and civil partnerships in England and Wales. Anyone under the age of 18 is a child in the eyes of the law in England and Wales. You...

Last week Jemma Dally, Head of our International Child Care Team and expert in adoption and surrogacy was a panellist at Interlaw Diversity Forum’s......

Jemma Dally represented the respondent birth mother In the matter of B (A child) [2016] UKSC 4. This was a complex case dealing with issues of same-sex parenting, Habitual Residence and a child’s nationality. Click on the following to read more: http://www.familylawweek.co.uk/site.aspx?i=ed158713