Consent order for family matter?

[Littlejamtart]

Hi all,

I have name changed for this.

Me and my Son's Dad are not together but now get on well. When my son was born I didnt put his Dad on the birth certificate for a few reasons.

My Sons dad wants parental responsibility for his son. I'm happy for this. However, I would like a court order in place to protect me and the fact our son lives with me. My sons dad agrees with this

The things we would like an order to say are:

• My sons Dad gets parental responsibility
• My son lives with me
• My sons Dad gets at least one over night a week when he's home from work (he works abroad 4 weeks on/off)
• in the event of my death or I was unable to look after my son, he would go straight to his Dads

How is the best way to do this? Would it be via a consent order? And how do we go about doing it? Also wondered what the rough cost would be? I'm in East Anglia if that makes a difference?

Any advice or information would be great
Thank you

There is something called the no order principle. Why get a court order if you're both agreed? Court resources are stretched to breaking point as it is.

Just put him on the birth certificate.

We haven't always gotten on as well as we do now, and there were issues previously and SS were involved because of his Dad. We were heading to court previously but managed to work things out between us. So now it's going well, we would like it official. If things were to go south again, at the moment, I would be able to get my son returned to me. However, if that happened when he had parental responsibility, there would be nothing I could do? Hence wanting some kind of protection.