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Paediatrics: 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

 

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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