While it is often portrayed as such, domestic violence does not always involve a female victim and male abuser. A National Study of Domestic Abuse found that 213,000 Irish women and 88,000 Irish men have been severely abused by a partner at some point in their lives. Yet only 5 per cent of those men […]
The following is probably the most regular scenario I come across when acting for fathers of young children. A father (we will call him Stephen) comes in to me and says that his daughter is 3 months old but he separated from her mother (we will call her Anne) and she will not allow him […]
Image from tumblr I am in the process of taking over a family law case on behalf of a very unhappy father. He told me that his previous solicitor was not supporting his application to have joint custody of his very young son. He is a self employed man, who has organised his working week […]
