Ghai & Co. Solicitors offers a comprehensive service in all aspects concerning childrens' issues including:

• Residence
• Contact
• Mediation
• Parental Responsibility
• Unmarried Fathers
• Prohibited Steps
• Specific Issue Orders
• Care Proceedings
• International Child Abduction - Criminal Proceedings
• International Enforcement and Registration of Foreign Orders
• Guardianship Rights - Grandparents', Step-parents' and any Other Third Parties
• Injunction Proceedings

More importantly, in considering issues involving children whether domestic or international:

• In deciding whether an order should be made the Court will have regard to:
  • The ascertainable wishes and feelings of the child concerned (considered in the light of the child's age and understanding);
  • The child's physical, emotional and educational needs;
  • The likely affect on the child of any change in his/her circumstances;
  • The child's age, sex, background and any other characteristic, which the Court considers relevant;
  • Any harm, which the child has suffered or is at risk of suffering;
  • How capable each of the child's parents, and any other person in relation to whom the Court considers the question to be relevant, is of meeting the child's needs;
  • The range of powers available to the court under the Children Act in the proceedings in question.
    
    
• On making any decision, the Court's paramount consideration is the welfare of the child.