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  • #32
    pbn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14 ✭pbn


    Thank you for replies. If ....summons arrives I will update.



  • #33
    TooTired123
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,232 ✭✭✭TooTired123


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120392310#Comment_120392310

    Solicitors will, for a fee, send any letter you instruct them too as long as it’s not breaking the law.



  • #34
    sporina
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭sporina


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120392835#Comment_120392835

    i don't have anything to add except it seems to me that a lot of solicitors are out to make money - basing this on the experiences of some friends of late



  • #35
    pbn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14 ✭pbn


    Summons arrived. Looks like its headed before a judge. Should be good fun. And alot cash out the window.



  • #36
    Claw Hammer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,808 ✭✭✭Claw Hammer


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120392911#Comment_120392911

    Believe it or not, most solicitors have to make money! Very few can survive without making money.



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  • #37
    sporina
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭sporina


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120620045#Comment_120620045

    yeah - but should be done with the client's best interest at heart - not always the case



  • #38
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 1,539 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120386984#Comment_120386984

    There were some changes to the laws on guardianship - they were updated by the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015.

    More info here:

    https://www.treoir.ie/information/guardianship-information/

    Unmarried fathers can now acquire guardianship via cohabitaton and other family members (including step-parents) can, in some circumstances, apply for guardianship and may be granted it, even when the child's parents are already both guardians.

    Post edited by [Deleted User] on


  • #39
    pbn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14 ✭pbn


    I feel courts are already clogged up with mother/father cases....if aunts and uncles are now been entertained it will open up flood gates and set precedents?

    I will update with more info as it unfolds.



  • #40
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,311 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    I don't see that happening, any time there's a separation the issue of custody between the parents needs to be sorted out. The number of people who are not parents who might seek to use the courts to gain access to kids has got to be tiny. I'd imagine even grandparents would have great difficulty in establishing a case for court-ordered access if both parents were firmly against it.

    I'm partial to your abracadabra,

    I'm raptured by the joy of it all.



  • #41
    Ginger83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,608 ✭✭✭Ginger83


    Probably irrelevant but how do the children feel about these relatives?



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  • #42
    pbn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14 ✭pbn


    From the kids point of view...they dont know them anymore...dont mention them...they will gain nothing from access...they are very happy...settled...secure...loved...so absolutely not irrelevant....imo the opposite...that's priority...not that relatives are unhappy with the situation.



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