wardship proceedings

Kennedy's father, however, disapproved of the relationship and instituted wardship proceedings.

In conversation with my mother it appears that she realised my mother was too unbalanced to have custody of my daughter, so therefore she made wardship proceedings herself.

In the first appeal a local authority applied to commit the contemnor to prison for contempt of court following outbursts of violence during wardship proceedings in which they were both parties.

Examples given in Scott v. Scott [1913]A.C. 417 include wardship proceedings which might fail in their primary purpose to protect the interests of the ward if they took place public.