Contrary to what is often believed, there is no such thing as “common law marriage”, and cohabitees have no automatic rights against, or responsibilities for, a person they live with, whether they are the same sex as
The purpose of this guide is to support you with sorting out your finances when you separate and divorce. Introduction Among other things, it seeks to provide you with a broad ‘legal context’ for discussing your divorce financial arrangements in
There are many ways to manage controlling behaviour but the key, as always, is to first assess the type of controlling behaviour you are seeing and experiencing, before deciding how to respond; What I call the ‘lense and lever’ approach,
Why is it that, apparently less than a quarter of cases in which a MIAM has taken place, proceed to mediation? This certainly not my experience or the experience of the Compass Resolution mediators. In fact, it is the reverse,
4 Having decided to give it a go, fully commit to making it work. Having found out as much as you can about mediation, spoken to the mediator and decided to give it a go, it is really
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE-27 June 2014 Organisations line up to help parents and children remain a family after separation Family separation is highly stressful and all the research shows that children cope with the change best if parents collaborate. But
In my mediation information meetings I often ask my clients what they argue about and how these arguments end. The following is typical of what I often hear from each client. Every time we argue about the children he threatens
When someone as senior as Lord Justice Munby talks about taking Judges and the court out of the divorce process, it is time for us all to sit up and listening, if we have not be listening already. Outside, the
It might sound strange but in mediation much of what we focus on is the fear, concerns and frustrations our clients are experiencing. Not for the sake of it, obviously but because the answers and positive outcomes lie in dealing
One of the main challenge facing professionals engaged in mediation and conflict resolution practice is to ‘ recruit’ all the parties into the process from the start. This has to be handled with care. It is nearly always one person
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