England and Wales Case Law

M v F (Children: Treatment of Expert Evidence)

Given the father's ongoing lack of insight into his controlling and coercive behaviour, the risk of emotional harm to the mother and children, and the evidence that the children's wishes for equal shared care were heavily influenced by the father, it is not in the children's best interests to make a shared care (equal time) order. The children will live with the mother and spend time with the father on alternate weekends and Thursday evenings, with a section 91(14) bar imposed to prevent further litigation for two years.

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• Child arrangements orders
• Domestic abuse (controlling and coercive behaviour)
• Welfare checklist
• Shared care
• Section 91(14) bar
• Expert evidence

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Father v Mother

The court found all allegations of domestic abuse, including coercive and controlling behaviour, by the father against the mother and children proven. The evidence of the mother and her relative was credible and consistent, while the father's evidence was dishonest and unreliable. The risk to the children and mother from the father is ongoing and serious. The children's welfare requires that they live with their mother, have no contact with the father, and that the mother's parental responsibility be enhanced and the father's restricted. The mother is permitted to change the children's surnam…

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• Domestic abuse
• Child arrangements
• Parental responsibility
• Non-molestation orders
• Prohibited steps orders
• Change of name

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Father v Mother

Father v Mother [2023] EWFC 335 (B) (04 July 2023)

Family Court judgment finding serious domestic abuse proved, refusing paternal contact, restricting parental responsibility, and granting protective orders for the mother and children.

• Child arrangements order
• Prohibited steps order
• Non-molestation order
• Change of name
• Restriction of parental responsibility
• Section 91(14) bar

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F (Children; Contact, Name, Parental Responsibility)

F (Children; Contact, Name, Parental Responsibility) [2014] EWFC 42 (24 September 2014)

Family Court decision restricting a father’s parental responsibility, maintaining the children’s changed surname, extending a non-molestation order, and imposing a five-year s 91(14) bar.

• Child welfare
• Contact
• Parental responsibility
• Change of name
• Non-molestation order
• Section 91(14) bar

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F (Children; Contact, Name, Parental Responsibility)

In private-law proceedings about twin boys, the court restricted the father’s parental responsibility, maintained the children’s changed surname, and imposed a five-year section 91(14) bar.

• Contact with children
• Parental responsibility
• Change of name
• Non-molestation orders
• Section 91(14) bar
• Contact-with-children

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