- Has your child been taken overseas without your consent or are you worried this may happen?
- Have you brought your child into the UK from abroad?
- Are you being denied contact with your child overseas?
Where abduction is feared and there is evidence to support that fear, we can advise you and make an application to the Court for a prohibited steps order to restrain either or both parties from taking the child abroad.
We can assist you in obtaining orders for the disclosure of a child's whereabouts, to order the recovery of a child, to restrict the removal of a child from the United Kingdom, to activate the "ports alert" procedure and to require the surrender of any passport containing details of a child. If the child cannot be found then a wide range of orders may be made under the High Court's inherent jurisdiction with respect to children or within wardship proceedings, including "seek and find" orders, orders restraining persons from leaving the jurisdiction and requiring the surrender of passports.
In cases where there are concerns as to the child going abroad, it is possible to ask the Court to allow the visit only on condition that the person taking the child abroad lodge a sum of money in Court (a bond or a charge on property) which will be forfeited if the child is not returned.
If the child had been abducted to England from a Country within the European Union the Central Authority of the country concerned will forward an application to the International Child Abduction and Contact Unit (ICACU) for England and Wales.
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