Court orders for maintenance are typically made to ensure that one of the divorcees’ financial needs are met. However, a recent court more…
The court can also make decisions about the protected party’s health and welfare.
The scope of the court’s powers is very wide and can include the following:
- Deciding where the person is to live i.e. with a relative, in a care home or the court can decide which home which might suit the person.
- Deciding what contact if any the person is to have with anybody else.
- Making an order prohibiting a person having contact with the protected party.
- Giving or refusing consent to medical treatment or healthcare for protected party.
Examples of Health and welfare cases:
Case 1:
Acting for a carer and partner of a man with dementia and his daughter made an application in the court of protection for an order to see him.
Case 2:
Advised a daughter about the care of her mother with dementia when a dispute arose about which care home she should live in.
