Griffiths v Griffiths

Subject Matter

CHILDREN — Orders with respect to children — Contact order

[2021] EWHC 3600 (Fam), Fam D

CHILDREN — Orders with respect to children — Child arrangements order — Father found to have physically and sexually abused mother — Judge nevertheless making order for father to have direct and indirect contact with child with costs of contact to be shared between mother and father — Whether judge erring in ordering direct contact — Whether jurisdiction to order payment of contact costs — Whether judge erring in ordering victim of domestic abuse to contribute to costs of abuser’s contact with child — Children Act 1989 (c 41), s 11(7) — FPR PD 12J, paras 36, 37, 40

[2022] EWHC 113 (Fam); [2022] 1 WLR 3259; [2022] 2 FLR 855; [2022] WLR(D) 70, Fam D

Commentary

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