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Report of the Financial Remedies Working Group: An overview for practitioners

Date:26 JAN 2015
Readers of Family Law will recall that the President’s 12th ‘View from the President’s Chambers’ published on 4 June 2014 introduced two working groups; the Children and Vulnerable Witness Working Group and the Financial Remedies Working Group (who are working on the new Money Arrangements Programme – the MAP).

The interim report of the Financial Remedies Working Group (the FRWG) was published on 31 July 2014 and is discussed in The Financial Remedies Working Group – Essential Update. Today (26 January 2015) saw the publication of the final report of the FRWG dated 15 December 2014. The final report takes into account comments and representations made by groups such as Resolution the Family Law Bar Association and the Family Justice Council as well as some individual practitioners and judges.

Some of the highlights of the report are outlined below:
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