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Family weekly highlights—4 July 2024

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Published on: 04 July 2024

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Table of contents

Private children
The legal consequences of artificial or natural insemination (P v Q and Ors)
Public children
Uploading urgent draft orders via MyHMCTS Family Public Law service
Care order (Kirklees Metropolitan Council v A mother and others)
Placement order (The Local Authority v The Mother and others)
Financial provision
Hadkinson order made in ongoing enforcement and variation of maintenance proceedings (WJB v HJM)
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Article summary

This week's edition of Family weekly highlights includes analysis of the application of Hadkinson principles in ongoing enforcement and variation of maintenance proceedings and the legal consequences of artificial or natural insemination. The HMCTS release note in relation to an additional urgent flag in the HMCTS Family Public Law portal is considered. Family Court decisions in relation to care plans for children at risk of serious physical harm and care and placement orders are also set out.

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