Dependants

Guidance on child custody arrangements and supporting your children through separation. Articles explain custody decisions, access rights, maintenance payments, and protecting children's wellbeing.

Access Rights

How visitation and contact rights work during divorce and what options you have to reach agreement with your partner.

Care of the Children During Divorce

Help your children cope with divorce by planning ahead, talking openly, and keeping their lives as stable as possible.

Emotional Support for the Children

Help your children cope emotionally when their parents separate and understand the behavioural changes that may follow.

Getting Help with Childcare Costs

Get practical support for childcare costs during and after divorce, including mediation, counselling, and local childcare options.

Parental Alienation Syndrome

How one parent manipulates children against the other during divorce and why courts struggle to see through it.

Paying Child Support

Both parents have a financial responsibility for their children after separation, whether married or not.

What Is Family Court?

Family courts handle parenting disputes and child welfare issues, not divorce finances or support payments.

Who Gets Custody?

How courts decide where your children live after a breakup and what parental rights each parent has.