Child Arrangements

Understanding child arrangement disputes

How decisions about where a child lives and spends time are made.

"Custody" isn't the legal term any more — arrangements now focus on living and contact time, decided with the child's welfare as the paramount consideration.

What this covers
  • How living and contact arrangements are decided
  • The welfare checklist courts apply
  • Mediation and out-of-court routes
  • What a child arrangements order covers
Courts strongly prefer parents to reach their own agreement wherever it's safe and possible to do so.
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