Top tips direct from children and young people with experience of their parents separating, to help parents to think about things from their child’s perspective. Download Top Tips for Parents who are Separated
For all families, the Covid-19 pandemic created worry and difficulties. For separated/separating families the impact on the parents and especially the children has been compounded. OnlyMums & Dads produced this excellent follow to to 101 Questions to answer the most frequently asked questions they received during the Covid-19 pandemic. Download your copy of Separation and
Planning Together for Children is a course that promotes cooperative parenting. It is a service that Cafcass provides on behalf of the Ministry of Justice. It supports parents to put the needs of their children first while they are working out how they can parent together when they are in the process of separating and/or
The Parenting Plan is a written plan worked out between parents after they separate. This CAFCASS resource will give you some idea of what a Parenting Plan might look like for you and the kind of questions to think through as you are preparing one. Download your copy of the Parenting Plan
AdviceNow provide this guide for people who want to sort out their finances themselves when they get divorced. Perhaps because they don’t want to have to go to court or are worried about how much it will cost if they get a lawyer to do it for them. Most people in this situation don’t know what
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This fantastic resource, produced by OnlyMums & Dads, seeks to answer the questions parents have when separating. Whilst you may be able to find lots of information on the internet, much of it is inaccurate or misleading. Â 101 Questions Collates the best professional advice from many of the UK’s leading family mediators and solicitors together
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It’s certainly been a long time coming, but it’s now 1 week until 6th April 2022 when NO FAULT DIVORCE will be introduced in England & Wales. Whilst we’re still waiting for the final details, we do know that there will be some BIG changes. The sole ground for divorce, ‘Irretrievable Breakdown’, will continue to
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At the start of this year’s Family Mediation Week, Vollans Mediation has taken the World Mediators Alliance for Climate Change’s Green Pledge. As we’ve been thinking about how we ensure the mediation service we offer is sustainable in a post-Covid world, consideration of environmental sustainability certainly forms part of the conversation. Julia Tanner, a trained
Research highlights that a high proportion of children say that no-one spoke to them before, during or after their parents’ separation.  One of the important decisions that parents have to make is how and what they will tell their children about what is happening. It is important to recognise that every child is an
Legal Aid is available for family mediation if you are financially eligible and your case is the type of case that the Legal Aid Agency will fund (a dispute following family breakdown that may end up in court such as making child arrangements following separation of financial arrangements where you are getting divorced. If you
