Children and living apart
Making arrangements for your children after a divorce or separation, parental rights and child maintenance.
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Make a Parenting Plan
A guide to making practical arrangements for your children if you live apart or are separating.
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Child maintenance if one parent lives abroad
What to do if you need to get child maintenance and one of you lives outside Scotland.
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Contacting your grandchildren if their parents separate
How to get contact with your grandchildren if their parents divorce or separate and won't let you see them.
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Parental responsibilities and rights
Find out about what the law says about your responsibilities and rights whether you're a mother, father, married, living together or in a civil partnership.
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Child maintenance
How to arrange child maintenance if one of the parents does not live with a child.