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What happens if a child protection plan is breached?
Published on 27/03/2025, by Qredible - Reading time: 7 mins
Breaching a child protection plan doesn't automatically result in losing your child, but repeated or serious violations significantly increase this risk, especially if authorities determine your child remains at risk of significant harm despite intervention.
Coercive Control: Punishments and Legal Consequences
Published on 27/02/2025, by Qredible - Reading time: 5 mins
Coercive control convictions require proving patterns of behaviour, and courts can impose severe penalties even without evidence of physical violence. The coercive control maximum sentence of 5 years applies purely for psychological and emotional abuse.
How to prove coercive control? Key evidence and legal steps
Published on 27/02/2025, by Qredible - Reading time: 5 mins
Patterns of controlling behaviour can be proven through strategic documentation of digital footprints, financial records, daily incidents, and third-party observations, even without physical marks.
What is coercive control? Signs, impact, and legal protections
Published on 27/02/2025, by Qredible - Reading time: 5 mins
Coercive control gradually erodes a person's sense of reality and self-worth through subtle manipulation, making it difficult to recognize abuse until the pattern of control is firmly established.
Divorce on the Grounds of Unreasonable Behaviour!
Published on 29/09/2020, by Qredible - Reading time: 4 mins
The law surrounding the ability to divorce your spouse is clear cut. There are five legal reasons why you are allowed to divorce your spouse, one of which must be met. Divorcing your spouse simply because you want to is insufficient grounds.
What rights does a father have to see his child?
Published on 22/09/2020, by Qredible - Reading time: 7 mins
It is an inconvertible truth that divorce has its adverse effects, always favouring a party over the other. Most often than not, the star always smiles at the wife as regards the supervision of their children. However, is it acceptable for a child to suffer by losing a relationship with one parent?
Prenuptial Agreement: Is it legally valid in the UK?
Published on 09/09/2020, by Qredible - Reading time: 4 mins
It is safe to say that prenuptial agreements don't exactly have the best reputation when it comes to the perception of Joe Public. Many people see them as the exclusive reserve of the rich and famous, used primarily to stop would-be 'gold-diggers' in their tracks or as a financial entrapment into an ultimately loveless marriage.
Prenups: Are they worth the paper they are written on?
Published on 27/08/2020, by Dr. Donald Macfarlane - Reading time: 7 mins
Prenuptial agreements (PNAs) are frequently associated in the context of "high net worth" individuals and celebrity marriages. However, PNAs are becoming justifiably more common throughout all levels of society.
Prohibited Steps Order: How can one be used?
Published on 17/08/2020, by Qredible - Reading time: 2 mins
A Prohibited Steps Order is issued under Section 8 of the Children Act 1989 which is requested by one parent to ensure that the other parent does not continue to carry out a single particular action that involves a child or children from that relationship, where that action would prohibit the other parent from fulfilling their parental responsibilities.
Grandparents’ Rights: Want access to your grandchild?
Published on 22/07/2020, by Qredible - Reading time: 6 mins
In the UK, many grandparents have an essential role in supporting their grandchildren's upbringing. They collect them from school, take them for days out, have them for sleepovers, and some even live in their home.
Heterosexual Civil Partnerships in the UK
Published on 23/06/2020, by Qredible - Reading time: 2 mins
Civil partnerships and marriages are very similar in many regards. Several of their notable differences include the notions that civil partnerships cannot be formed in a religious ceremony or on religious grounds.
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