Cited online 26 March 2020 https://www.judiciary.uk/announcements/coronavirus-crisis-guidance-on-compliance-with-family-court-child-arrangement-orders/ Where Coronavirus restrictions cause the letter of a court order to be varied, the spirit of the order should nevertheless be delivered by making safe alternative arrangements for the child. Th...
Author: Annmarie cited online 25 March 2020 (https://carvalhotherapy.com/blog/) It's bloody horrible at the moment isn't it? Over the course of a week or so we've gone from a relatively normal existence (albeit with worries about developments in other countries) to total lockdown. And even though we had an inkling that this was coming, t...
Source: https://www.cafcass.gov.uk/grown-ups/parents-and-carers/covid-19-guidance-for-children-and-families/ COVID-19 guidance for children and families Cafcass has put together the following guidance to support children and families as the situation surrounding COVID-19 develops. We will do everything we can to help you and make sure that ou...
By Wendi Schuller
Your behaviour in divorce has an impact on its outcome.
Attempting to score points with verbal sparring against your opponent (spouse) may temporarily feel like a victory.
By Sarah Brookes, Brookes Family Mediation.
The breakdown of a relationship is very often extremely stressful and upsetting, particularly so when children are involved. It can be incredibly difficult not to allow feelings of hurt or anger to influence the important decisions that need to be made for yours and your children’s future. Family mediation helps people who are separating, or have separated, to discuss and agree on the future arrangements for children and/or finances. Family mediators are professionally trained to manage and support constructive discussions, and to do so in an entirely impartial and non-judgemental way; towards achieving agreed solutions. Mediated agreements are less likely to break down than arrangements ordered by the court. Government studies (2004-2010) indicate that mediation provides more sustainable resolutions than the court process.
Written by Sally Clarke, FMA board Secretary
by Philippa Johnson, Chair of The FMA
In the middle of what may be the most difficult time in your life, it can be very difficult to know where to go for help. Just at the time when you need more support than you have ever needed before, you don’t know who to ask or how you are going to afford to pay for expert professional guidance.
The court wants you to think about these things first:
Early and late sittings will be piloted in civil and family courts, giving people greater access to hearings that can fit around their busy lives.
Published 16 November 2018
HM Courts & Tribunals Service, Ministry of Justice, and Lucy Frazer QC MP
The stress of applying for a divorce could be eased thanks to a new online service that removes the need for paper forms.
Published 6 May 2018
HM Courts & Tribunals Service, Ministry of Justice, and Lucy Frazer QC MP
Some issues between separated parents are unimaginable. I have heard stories of children coached to call the other parent names; to misbehave; to not eat their food; to be mean to step-siblings. Indeed, over the years, I have interviewed children who have told me that and worse.
Some parents in a bid to curry favor with their child will actually let them eat junk food as they want; miss school; stay out late; use drugs or drink alcohol or otherwise do as they wish just to make the reasonable parenting of the other parent seem inappropriate.
Todays' theme is 'Accenrtuate the Positive' and below you'll find a mediation version of the popular song.
