A Parental Responsibility Order is a Court Order which gives a person parental responsibility, you need to have the child birth certificate.
Parental Responsibility gives a person “all the rights, duties, powers, responsibilities and authority which by law a parent of a child has in relation to the child and his property”.
Who Has Parental Responsibility
A mother of the child has automatically has parental responsibility.
A father usually has parental responsibility if he is either:
a) Married to the child’s mother
b) Listed on the birth certificate of the child
Even Unmarried Parents can has a Parental Responsibility
An unmarried father can get parental responsibility in 1 of the 3 ways:
- Jointly registering the birth of the child with the mother but it has to be before 1 December 2003.
- If a father can able to get a parental responsibility agreement with the mother
- By obtaining a parental responsibility Order from the Court, if you cannot agree on arrangements with the mother, then you can apply to the Court.
You need to be connected to the child, for example as their father, step-parent or 2nd female parent
The Court fee is £232.00
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