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The main application form used to ask the court for a Section 8 order about a child — a child arrangements order, a prohibited steps order, or a specific issue order — or to vary or discharge one. It's the form that starts most private family court cases about children.
In Plain English
The main form you use to start a court case about children. You use it to ask for things like who the child lives with or spends time with.
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