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Kids and Christmas: A Guide for Separated Parents

Kids and Christmas: A Guide for Separated Parents

Christmas is often described as the ‘best time of the year’, a ‘joyous occasion’. But for many separated parents it is a time of anxiety and worry when it comes to sorting out the child arrangements. For those parents it can be a period of dread having to argue over...
Raab: Mediate or Pay the Costs

Raab: Mediate or Pay the Costs

Documents produced by the Judiciary have shown that private family law cases may not return to pre-Covid levels until 2023. Backlogs in private law cases have increased 18% during the course of the pandemic. This has led to interim measures including conducting more...
Litigation Capacity

Litigation Capacity

A person is assumed to have capacity unless it is established they don’t.  In the realms of Family Court proceedings, capacity is related to adults or children aged 16 to 17 years (who are subject to proceedings) and who are likely to lack capacity at the age of 18....
The life of Pets in Divorce

The life of Pets in Divorce

According to the PDSA figures released in February 2020, 51% of UK adults own a pet. A BBC report dated 12/03/2021 stated that a total of 3.2 million households in the UK had acquired a pet since the start of the Coronavirus pandemic. The report went on to quote “the...
Why do I need a parenting plan with my ex?

Why do I need a parenting plan with my ex?

Co-parenting can be tough, especially when parents are finding it difficult to communicate following on from a volatile separation. In an interview with US Weekly, Heidi Klum’s former husband, Seal, was asked about co-parenting arrangements and discussed how “it can...