Monthly Archives: December 2020

Child Contact Centres

  Amanda Page, Senior Supervisory Solicitor at Andrew Isaacs Law is a Coordinator at the Derby Child Contact Centre.   Here she talks about her role at the Contact Centre and the important work that they do. It is a distressing fact that within two years of separation nearly 50% of children lose contact with the […]

What is Parental Responsibility?

All mothers and most fathers have legal rights and responsibilities as a parent.  This is known as ‘parental responsibility’. Married fathers automatically have parental responsibility for their child.  Unmarried fathers have parental responsibility only if they are named on the Birth Certificate.   Where a father is not named on the Birth Certificate but subsequently marries the […]