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Introduction Contact orders require the person with whom the child lives or is to live, to allow the child to visit or stay with the person named in such an order, or for the named person and the child otherwise to have contact with each other. It allows the non-resident parent or any other person named in the order to retain contact with the child, in a way to be decided by the court. This could be by stays, visits, letters or telephone calls, depending upon the circumstances of the case. All contact other than seeing the child in person is deemed indirect contact. Contact with the parents is the right of the child and not the parents1. If there has been a family breakdown then the court must consider the welfare checklist contained within S. 1 (3) Children Act 1989, required if S.1(4) applies, but the court will usually do...

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