This week is Mental Health Awareness Week. This last 15 months, during the pandemic, most of us have experienced significant changes and increased stresses, especially those experiencing family breakdown or difficulties in our family situations, so it is even more
The BBC has reported separated couples have been exploiting the Covid-19 lockdown to stop an ex-partner from seeing their child. The head of the family courts Sir Andrew McFarlane has said such parents could face court action. Sir Andrew McFarlane
A High Court judge has described a family at the centre of a high-profile £450m divorce battle one of the unhappiest ever to have appeared in her courtroom. Mrs Justice Knowles quoted Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina: ‘All happy families are
A Child Arrangements Order is an order that sets out arrangements for a child – that is most commonly where they live (previously called residence or custody) or who they spend time with (previously called contact or access). https://www.gov.uk/looking-after-children-divorce/types-of-court-order Legal
The long awaited judgment on four linked appeals heard by the Court of Appeal has now been handed down. The Judgment is likely to have a big impact on the way that the family court treat allegations of domestic abuse and
Regardless of whether you are married, divorced, or separated, co-parenting is never easy when you and other parent have different ideas and views surrounding parenting. It can become extremely challenging when you have separated, and you may not be on
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