Family

If you are going through a divorce and have children with your partner there are a lot of difficult considerations to make during what is already a complex and emotional time. One way to ensure that you are doing the right thing for your children, in both the short-term and long-term, is to hire experienced family solicitors with the knowledge to help you maintain your estate for your children, and your children’s children, after divorce and after your death.

The Children Act 1989 provides a list of rights, duties, powers and responsibilities, which a parent of a child has. It includes providing a home for the child, protecting and maintaining the child, being responsible for all discipline in relation to the child, dealing with educational matters, being responsible for the child’s health, welfare, finances and property. This is all vitally important for parent and child during the parents lifetime, but what happens should you pass away when your children are still young, and if you have separated from your partner who you had the children with?

Have a Valid and Accurate Will

The first thing you should do if you have a young family is to make a will if you have not done so already. If you already have a will, make sure that it is completely up-to-date with all accurate information present. That way you can ensure that there are provisions in place for any children that you are legally responsible for. If you do not make a will and you die, the law will take control of your estate and make assumptions as to how your estate is to be dealt with. In order to ensure that everything is passed on in the form and the way that you wish, you have to make an accurate and valid will.

If you die without a will and are married or in a civil partnership, the first £250,000 of your estate, and your personal items, will be passed on to your partner. Whether you wanted your children to receive the bulk of your estate or not, they will only receive half of the remainder of the estate outright when they reach the age of 18, and the other half when your spouse passes away.

Divorce and Remarriage

Things can become a little more complicated in looking after your children should you divorce and remarry. It is even more vital to make a will once you remarry in order to protect your children from a previous marriage in terms of your estate and finances. Unless you remake a will upon marrying again, your previous will is invalid and any children that you have from a previous marriage may fail to benefit at all, depending on the size of your estate.

On top of the estate and financial incentives to making an accurate will that reflects your wishes to protect your children and their financial future, it also allows you to appoint a specific guardian to look after your children should anything happen to both parents prior to the children turning 18 years of age.

As with any divorce proceedings where children are involved, it is important to put in place strong processes that ensure your children are looked after once you have passed on.

In this day of technology and social media, children need time away from electronics, and placed into environments that allow them to imagine and create their own fun activities. At home, and unfortunately at schools, children spend the majority of their time in front of laptops and mobile phones, and as a result they lose out on time to focus on meaningful development.

Sleep away camps provide the perfect circumstance for children to remove themselves from the city, meet new people, and create genuine ties with others their age, unencumbered by tablets and phones. The environment at camps allows children to work on their interaction skills, and also influences teamwork and self-reliance, since parents are not available to provide for their needs.

Sleep away camps have been in existence for over 100 years. These camps are one of the most effective places to foster the development of meaningful skills in younger generations. Every experience engages children in various lessons; some activities will influence the idea of effective planning, while others may influence evaluation of circumstances implementation of resolutions. In any case, a well-developed sleep away camp will give you children what they need to enhance their social skills.

At summer camps Dublin, children are usually placed into groups, which are then led by energetic staff who lead by example at all times. Because parents are not around, children are forced to communicate with one another and with those adults who lead them. This can lead many to conquer their fears of meeting strangers, and push your child into moving beyond what they believed were their limits. This results in the making and keeping of lasting friendships with other children their age. The mentors will most likely also impart their own behavior patterns onto the children, which is why camps work hard to hire mentors who have positive attitudes.

All of these opportunities expand children’s critical thinking skills. Being in an environment that is without modern conveniences will mold creativity. It will also influence the way your child sees the world around them, and make them more aware of their impact on the environment. Your child will learn that everything they do affects the animals and wildlife surrounding them; this is one of the many reasons camps discourage parents from sending their children unnecessary items in care packages. Allowing your child to see how little they actually need to survive and have a good time is a vital lesson.

Summer sleep-away camps may seem like they are only places for fun, but the amount of skills and socializing your child will do makes the experience worth far more. Not only will every child make connections to peers their age, but they will also have the chance to learn social skills from responsible adults.

They will also have ample amounts of time to make observations about the world around them, giving them a chance to think critically about how they affect the environment. And with the use of electronics removed, your child will have the chance to expand their critical thinking skills all day, as they come across challenges not usually faced by today’s modern children.

A published freelance journalist from print to on-line, Florin A. passion is honest authentic writing. From the mundane experience to an incredible remark, F. Aldea usually discovers a method to voice what he sees.

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