{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010/rule-9.11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010/rule-9.11.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/2955",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Procedure Rules 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010",
  "path": "rule/9.11",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "9.11",
  "heading": "Children to be separately represented on certain applications",
  "text": "(1) Where an application for a financial remedy includes an application for an order for a variation of settlement, the court must, unless it is satisfied that the proposed variation does not adversely affect the rights or interests of any child concerned, direct that the child be separately represented on the application.\n(2) On any other application for a financial remedy the court may direct that the child be separately represented on the application.\n(3) Where a direction is made under paragraph (1) or (2), the court may if the person to be appointed so consents, appoint—\n(a) a person other than the Official Solicitor; or\n(b) the Official Solicitor,\nto be a children's guardian and rule 16.24(5) and (6) and rules 16.25 to 16.28 apply as appropriate to such an appointment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2955/rule/9.11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:22:56.480940+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}