Payne (a) genuine and realistic

Question 1

What is para a

Answer 1

Is the mother’s application genuine in the sense that it is not motivated by some selfish desire to exclude the father from the child’s life?

Question 2

What does para a take into account of

Answer 2

financial issues

Question 3

Re F (CA)

Answer 3

Mother who had been offered a good job in the US allowed to move there with her son.

Question 4

What if insufficient attention has been paid

Answer 4

Re K (CA): American mother who had paid insufficient attention to the practicalities of pursuing postgraduate studies in the US prevented from moving back there with her child to study.

Question 5

There will be a stronger case when returning to homeland

Answer 5

Re F and H (CA); Mother allowed to return home to Texas after six years’ absence, without having schools and jobs and housing completely sorted out in advance. where the primary carer is returning to a completely familiar environment, the bar is obviously set considerably lower than in the case of an applicant who, in the pursuit of some dream or ambition, is proposing to take the children to an unknown and untried environment.