Parental responsibility
This is defined as ‘all the
rights, duties, powers, responsibilities, and author-ity which by law a parent
has in relation to the child and his property’.
Parental responsibility (PResp) is
allocated as follows.
·PResp is automatically given to
the mother.
·The
father has PResp if:
·
he and
mother were married at the child’s birth;
·
unmarried,
but name registered on birth certificate (after December 2003);
·
unmarried
and entered into a PResp agreement with the mother;
·
unmarried
and obtained a court order for PResp;
·
unmarried
and obtained a Residence Order.
·
In
addition unmarried fathers can acquire PResp by marrying the child’s mother.
·
Parents
cannot lose PResp unless the child is freed for adoption (or awarded to local
authority as part of EPO or care order).
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