Court Forms for Children Act Proceedings

THERE ARE NEW COURT FORMS TO BE USED AFTER 4th APRIL 2011. NEW Forms C100, C1A, C2, and C8 are now available below and compliant with the new Family Procedure Rules 2010. Links are updated in our smartphone guides

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  C100 Form - NEW FORM

The C100 form should be used when you wish to apply for the court to make a:

·       Residence Order, or Shared Residence Order in your favour;

·       Contact Order in your favour;

·       Specific Issue Order. Specific Issue Orders are made to resolve disputes concerning matters related to parental responsibility. This might be a parental dispute over a choice of schools, medical treatment, religion, a plans to take the children abroad on holiday, etc;

·       Prohibited Steps Order. A Prohibited Steps Order is made when it is deemed necessary to limit some aspect of a parent’s right to make decisions concerning the children. This might include preventing the parent from taking the children abroad, limiting their ability to make decisions about the children’s education or medical treatment etc.

 

C1 Form

The C1 form should be used when you wish to apply for:

·      a Parental Responsibility Order;

·      an Emergency Protection Order (form C11 must also be completed);

·      contact with a child in care (form C15 must also be completed);

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C1A Form - NEW FORM

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The C1A is a supplemental form, and should be included alongside an application if:

·       the children or yourself have been subject to violence, abuse or neglect;

·       agencies such as the police or social services have been involved with the children or immediate family (in relation to domestic violence or child abuse/neglect).

 

You should read the new CB1 Form before completing this form

C2 Form - NEW FORM

The C2 form should be used if:

·       you want to apply for a further court order when proceedings have already commenced. An example would be if court proceedings are ongoing to decide residence, but you have been unable to agree which school the children should attend, and wish to apply for a Specific Issue Order to resolve this further area of dispute;

·       you want to be joined as a party to proceedings. An example would be a step-parent wishing to be a party to the proceedings where contact has broken down;

·       you no longer wish to be a party to proceedings.

 

C3 Form

The C3 Form is the appropriate form to use for:

·       an application to authorise a search for, taking charge of, and the return of a child.

 

C4 Form

The C4 Form, sometimes called a 'Seek and Locate' or 'Seek and Find' Order, is an application for an order to disclose a child's whereabouts.

 

C8 Form - NEW FORM

The C8 form should be completed as a supplemental form to an application if you need to keep your address confidential. Acceptable reasons might include if the other party, their family or friends has been violent towards you or the children or threatened you, or if you are staying in refuge accommodation.

 

C11 Form

A supplemental form which should accompany Form C1 when making an application for an Emergency Protection Order.

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See also our guide on Emergency Protection Orders

 

 C13a Form

Supplement for an application for a Special Guardianship Order.

 

C15 Form

The C15 form should be used to apply to the court for contact with a child in care. This form should only be used if:

·      you are the parent or guardian for the child;

·      you held a residence order for the child immediately before the child was taken into care;

·      you had care of the child via a court order immediately before the child was taken into care.

 

 C18 Form

The C18 form is a supplemental form which should accompany an application to recover a child (Form C3).

 

C78 Form

The C78 form is used if you wish to apply for a warning notice to be attached to an existing Contact Order. Contact Orders made after December 2008 should already have a warning notice attached to them. Check whether your Contact Order does before applying.

 

C79 Form

The C79 form should be used to apply for enforcement of a contact order. While the court has the power to imprison, fine, or make the resident parent carry out community service for being in breach of a contact order, an application can also be made to assist contact to happen without punishment (which may inflame the situation). Consider whether you want your children to be told by the other parent that 'Daddy is trying to send Mummy to jail'. Fines and imprisonment for breaking Contact Orders are rare. A more conciliatory approach, and one which arguably may achieve a better outcome, is to apply for enforcement, but stating you wish the court's assistance by way of:

·      a 12 month Family Assistance Order (an order you do not apply for as such, but which can be made at the court's discretion). A Family Assistance Order may direct that CAFCASS should become involved in the case, assist in facilitating contact and resolving disagreements, and monitor contact for up to 12 month period;

·      family therapy. If the resident parent is saying the children do not wish to see you, and even if this is true, family therapy can be a useful tool to resolve arguments and help you rebuild your relationship with your child;

·      parenting classes.

If such approaches are unsuccessful, the court may then decide to adopt a more forceful approach, with penalties. A further option exists to apply for a reversal of residence in your favour, if the current resident parent is resolutely opposed to contact for no good reason. While reversal of residence is rare, it does happen.

 

 C(PRA1) Form

A formal, legal agreement, made by consent and witnessed by an approved court official, between the mother and father, granting the father legal parental responsibility.

We recommend you also read our factsheet on Parental Responsibility to confirm whether or not you have this legal

status, and to see the other ways in which Parental Responsibility can be acquired.

 

 C(PRA2) Form

A formal, legal agreement, made by consent and witnessed by an approved court official, between the mother and step-father, and any other holder of parental responsibility, granting the step-father legal parental responsibility for the children. If the father does not have parental responsibility, his agreement need not be sought.

 

We recommend you also read our factsheet on Step-Parents and Parental Responsibility.

 

C(PRA3) Form

A formal, legal agreement, made by consent and witnessed by an approved court official, between the mother and her same sex partner, who is recognised as the other parent by virtue of the Human Fertlisation and Embryology Act 2008.

 


N161 Form

The form to use for appeal applications (the Appellant's Notice)