Ben Butler and Ellie Chapman from Brighton & Hove Law, provide a joint article for Family Law Week, where they discuss Justice Singer in Re P (Terminating Parental Responsibility) [1995] 3 FCR 753. It stated, “the ability of a mother to make such an application… should not be allowed to become a weapon in the hands of the dissatisfied mother of the non-marital child: it should be used by the court as an appropriate step in the regulation of the child’s life where the circumstances really do warrant it and not otherwise.”
As practitioners will be aware, these applications do not often succeed. The threshold for granting applications are extremely high and the law around the subject is found mostly within case law.
Read the full article here.