A Parent's Guide to the Law

ebook The Legal Rights of Parents and Their Children

By Jon Robins

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Do you know what your parental rights are? And what are the rights of your children?

What should the school do if your child is being bullied? How do you protect your child online? Can your child have medical treatment without your say-so? Is it against the law to smack your child?

If you've ever had questions about your rights as a parent and your children's rights, then A Parent's Guide to the Law can answer them all.

Bringing up a child is hard enough, without the extra burden of knowing all the legal rules and regulations that have an impact upon parenting.

This legal guide to your parental rights, and the rights of your child, will help all parents understand their parental rights and responsibilities, from expecting a first child to becoming a grandparent.

Author Jon Robins is an award-winning journalist who writes about legal rights and consumer issues for the national press.

In A Parent's Guide to the Law he draws on the advice of leading experts and organisations on a wide range of topical issues, including parental leave rights, parental responsibility rights and parental access rights.

This essential legal guide to Parental & Child Rights is in Question & Answer format, full of practical help on your legal rights, free of jargon and legalese, and with a directory of contacts at the end of each chapter.

This legal guide to your parents' rights includes more than 200 answers to parents' most frequently-asked legal questions, including:

  • Who has parental responsibility – you or your partner?
  • Do you have a parental right to insist upon a home birth?
  • What standards can you, as a parent, expect from schools, hospitals and other services that provide for you and your children?
  • How much parental leave can you take off work to have and care for your child?
  • Are you entitled to a free nursery place for your child?
  • Do you have the parental right to choose your child's school?
  • How can you make a school appeal if a school refuses your child their first school place?
  • What powers does a school have to 'exclude' your child?
  • What should a school do to protect your child from bullying?
  • Your child's school disapproves of your plans for an extended holiday. Can they stop you?
  • What can you do if your child's school isn't up to scratch?
  • At what age is it 'OK' to leave your child 'home alone'?
  • Is it against the law to smack your child?
  • What can you do to protect your child online?
  • How old does your child have to be to get a tattoo?
  • Can your 15-year-old daughter have an abortion without your say-so?
  • Can your child have credit?
  • Can parents be liable for the criminal acts of their children?
  • Do mothers always get custody after divorce and what about fathers' parental access rights?
  • How does the Child Support Agency work?
  • Who financially supports your children on a break up?
  • And much, much more...

    Parents: Know your parental and children's rights today with A Parent's Guide to the Law.

    Valid in England and Wales.

  • A Parent's Guide to the Law