Compassionate and supportive parental responsibility solicitors

Your relationship with your children is one of the most precious things in life. If you’re being denied contact with your child or your rights as a parent are being ignored, we understand that can be a distressing and deeply frustrating situation.

Our child contact solicitors are here to help you protect your relationship with your child by securing all of the parental rights and responsibilities to which you’re entitled. We’ll use all of our child law expertise to help you ensure your child’s wellbeing.

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How our child contact solicitors help you

If you’re going through a divorce or a relationship has broken down, your child’s welfare will inevitably be your number one concern. Our experienced child contact solicitors will help you put in place arrangements that protect your child and your relationship with them.

This includes ensuring you have regular contact with your child, that your parental responsibilities are respected and that stress is kept to a minimum for everyone involved.

Some of the ways we will help you to achieve that include:

Mediation and arbitration

We will explore all options to avoid the need for you – and particularly your child – to go to court to resolve child contact matters. This includes using mediation and, if necessary, arbitration to find amicable solutions.

Child contact orders

When mediation doesn’t resolve child contact issues, or if the child contact agreements you reached are not followed, our child law solicitors will help you to put in place legal guarantees. Usually, this will involve securing a child contact order. This will create a legal requirement for the person who has day-to-day care of the child to make the child available for contact with you as set out in the order.

Parental responsibility agreement

We will help you and your child’s other parent to formally reach an agreement that you each have parental responsibility. Once the parental responsibility agreement is finalised and recorded, you will have full parental responsibility. This is particularly useful for parents who don’t automatically have parental responsibility, such as unmarried fathers.

Parental responsibility order

When parental responsibility cannot be agreed through a parental responsibility agreement, we will apply to the court to secure parental responsibility on your behalf. The court will decide whether you should have parental responsibility based on the child’s best interests. If the court grants the order, you will have full parental responsibility.

Why choose H McPartland & Sons as your child contact solicitors?

Given our decades of experience in child law since 1949, we’re among the most experienced child contact solicitors in Northern Ireland. We’ll deploy all of that legal expertise to help you safeguard your child and your rights as a parent.

Our child contact solicitors in Lurgan and Lisburn pride themselves on protecting children’s best interests and ensuring that one parent’s actions don’t irreparably damage the parent-child relationship for the other parent.

We take a compassionate and pragmatic approach to ensuring your child’s welfare. Our preference is for dialogue, mediation and agreement. In cases when that isn’t possible, we will help you to explore legal options to secure child contact.

Any child contact case is personal and highly sensitive. You’re welcome to book a free consultation at our offices in Lurgan or Lisburn to get initial legal advice on your situation. Both offices offer ample car parking. We’re also happy to meet you at home or arrange a phone consultation.