Kent Solicitors

Where the facts support it, the Court can order that a child"s surname be changed to reduce the risk of abduction by one of the parents and the court can make orders preventing the parent from seeing the child and limiting that parent"s right to make further applications to the court - all to be done in the interests of the children"s need for stability and absence of stress.

In a recent case, the father had threatened to abduct his 2 children and remove them to another county, applied secretly for passports for them, accused the mother and her new partner of abusing the children (not found to be true), breached a non-molestation order, made accusations of bias against the judge and allegations against the mother"s solicitors

The court made it clear that the father would have to change his ways if he was ever to see the children again

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