Access and custody changes in Children and Family Act 2015
The most significant change brought about by the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015 is that it allows for relatives to make an application for custody of a child (more particularly, a person with whom the child concerned resides and where a person is married to, or is, or was in a civil partnership with, or has been for in excess of three years cohabiting with the parent of the child and has shared with that parent responsibility for the child’s day to day care for a period of more than two years.
