Shared residence order meaning

Practice Note This Practice Note outlines the overarching principles concerning child arrangements orders (CAOs) that permit a child to live with two or more people who reside separately. It reviews the leading authorities on shared residence orders. The Note also addresses decisions about CAOs specifying with whom a child is to live, together with matters involving same-sex partners. A child arrangements order is an order that sets out arrangements about the person(s) with whom a child is to live, spend time or otherwise have contact, and/or the times when a child is to live, spend time or otherwise have contact with any other person. For additional detail on CAOs that determine living arrangements, and the considerations the court applies when making such orders, see Practice Note: Child arrangements orders—residence...

This Practice Note sets out the statutory right (subject to statutory qualifying criteria) of qualifying tenants of long leases of houses to obtain the freehold (individual enfranchisement), or to secure a 50-year extension of the house lease under the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 (LRA 1967). It offers guidance on the qualifying criteria for premises and tenants, service of a tenant’s claim notice and the landlord’s notice in reply, applications to the First-tier Tribunal (FTT) (or the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal (LVT) in Wales) and County Court procedure, valuation and calculation of the purchase price, and completion of the acquisition. Houses—the right to enfranchise A tenant of a leasehold house and any attendant premises (such as a garden, garage, yard, etc) is entitled under the LRA 1967 to acquire: the freehold where all of the following are satisfied: the tenancy is a long tenancy (see Long tenancy below) (references to long tenancy exclude business tenancies save in certain specified situations,...