The damage caused to children by poor or selfish parenting when they separate has reached epidemic proportionsTens of thousands of children suffer the needless loss of a parent in their lives through abusive denigration of good parentsFamily courts are not fit for purpose - other forms of support are all but non-existentCovid-19 is making matters w...
No stamp duty on main homes up to £500,000 The Chancellor announced this month that stamp duty will be cut until 31st March 2021, with no tax on properties up to £500,000 where it is a main home. The additional 3% on each of the bands for second and subsequent properties will still be payable. (Source: Moneywise, 8th July 2020)
Recent NSPCC data show that in the three months April to June 2020 there were more than 22,000 contacts to the NSPCC helpline from adults with concerns for the wellbeingof a child an increase of 32% on the previous 3 monthly average. Main concerns have been about parental behaviour, physical and emotional abuse and neglect. Two in five of the conta...
Only Mums and Dads have set up the Green Phone Initiative, which is a national project providing victims of domestic abuse the opportunity to talk to a legal professional about their situation and what their options are for moving forward. The list of professionals, many of whom are domestic abuse specialists, is available at: https://www.thefamily...
Life has moved online and in the last five years, we have started to do so many things via our phones. We carry out our weekly shop, banking, watch movies and even see our GP online when we are not feeling well. The world is now digital Online mediation has many benefits and allows people to access mediation quickly and safely from where-ever they ...
Family Mediation South East continues to offer our high quality professional certified mediation service bringing expert family mediation directly to you at home. We are here to help.Keep Mediating. During these challenging times family mediation is more valuable than ever, offering accessible dispute and conflict resolution when you need it. Media...
Could mediation have helped Joe move forward instead of focusing his energy on "that b!*@h Carole Baskin"? Yes. A million times yes. In many ways, Joe and Carole's issues began as a rather typical copyright and intellectual property dispute. They became fierce enemies because they both refused to address their conflict directly. Instead of addressi...
The play shows, in a reverse chronology, the tale of Dave and Maggie, wo have a child Daisy.The play starts when Maggie and Dave, both full of regret and sadness, meet 20 years after a court case in which Dave was refused contact with Daisy.It then moves back in time, though the anger of the aftermath of the court case twenty years earlier, to the ...
The FMC submitted a series of proposals to the MoJ in order to encourage more families to use mediation to settle disputes. The proposals included MoJfunded MIAMs for all, better gatekeeping by the courts, and an online scheme whereby judges could refer parties to mediation if they had reached court. The MOJ confirmed they had lots of let...
When couples with significant assets decide to separate, it can become a costly and protracted proceeding. But high net worth couples are not average, they have many unique issues that take more time to resolve, and their legal fees are often much higher. With so much property and assets at stake, there is the potential for a long and drawn out cou...
This judgment gives an insight into the mindset of the family judiciary at this moment in time. It is reproduced in slightly abbreviated form below: 1. In error and, no doubt, under intense pressure from a busy court list, a legal adviser made an unnecessary and disproportionate order for the disclosure of five years' worth of medical records relat...
An application for a financial provision order or a property adjustment order cannot be made if a party has remarried (section 28(3) Matrimonial Causes Act 1973). The Petitioner's financial claims are usually left in the divorce petition but if the claims were crossed out, or it is the Respondent who wishes to make a claim, a Form A needs to be iss...
