Child Custody - How To Challenge A Residence Order

How do I challenge a residence order?

Once the court's made an order it can always be challenged by an appeal. What's important, if you're considering an appeal, is to get specialists, family or advice. It can be quite tricky - there are time limits, the procedure needs to be followed very carefully - and so if you possibly can do get some advice on how to do that. The appeal procedure varies depending on the court that you're appealing from. What an appeal isn't is a complete rehearing, apart from in some certain unusual circumstances, and so you need to think about seriously whether you're likely to succeed on an appeal. Usually an appeal will only succeed if the original judge was wrong in law, or the decision that he or she came to was so unusual or unbelievable, based on the facts that a reasonable judge wouldn't have been able to come to that decision. So most decisions are not that easy to appeal.