Focusing on behaviour and attitudes of separating parents

I am sure that if this year's Family Law Awards were an in-person event as usual, rather than this year’s virtual occasion, much of the chatter among family law professionals would be around the newly-published Family Solutions Group report.

What about me? Reframing Support for Families following Parental Separation, was unveiled on 12 November. The Family Solutions Group is made up of professionals from a range of sectors and disciplines. It was established in January 2020 with the specific purpose of making recommendations to the Private Law Working Group about immediate or short-term improvements to the ‘pre-court’ arena. 

Introducing the new report, President of The Family Division, Sir Andrew MacFarlane, spoke of co-ordinating various strands of thinking “aimed at finding a better way to achieve good co-parenting between separated parents.” 

He notes it’s thought that “about 40% of all separating parents bring issues about their children’s care to the Family Court for determination, rather than exercising parental responsibility and sorting problems out themselves. This figure is both startling and worrying.” 

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