Contact order

An order made in private children law proceedings before 22 April 2014 requiring the person with whom a child lives, or is to live, to allow the child to visit or stay with the person named in the order, or for that person and the child otherwise to have contact with each other (section 8(1), Children Act 1989).

Contact orders made before 22 April 2014 and applications for contact orders made but not disposed of before 22 April 2014 are deemed to be orders and applications for child arrangements orders. For information on how to apply for a child arrangements order, see Practice note, How to apply for, vary or discharge child arrangements orders.