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The promotion of non-court dispute resolution.

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The work lawyers carry out within family law is shaped by guidance and protocol in the first instance – for example, Resolution members adhere to the guiding principle that we deal with cases in a conciliatory and non-confrontational way. Once court...

Mediation Week 2024

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We are presently in the middle of Mediation Week, which this year runs from 22 to 26 January 2024. This is an annual event where the benefits of Family Mediation are spotlighted and aims to guide more separated couples towards mediation as a way of...

How Child Maintenance Evolved

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Child maintenance goes back to the first Elizabethan age, where laws were introduced to punish the parents of children born outside marriage and put the father under extreme pressure to support their child. This developed over the centuries to allow...

Mediation Week

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We are presently in the middle of Mediation Week, which this year runs from 16 -20 January 2023. This is an annual event where the benefits of Family Mediation are spotlighted and aims to guide more separating couples towards mediation as a way of...

Good Divorce Week

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Resolution, an organisation of family lawyers, will be holding their annual “Good Divorce” week this year from 28 November to 2 December. Resolution was a high profile organisation key in maintaining the impetus for No Fault Divorces which...

But what about the dog?

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I have had dogs all my adult life, they are a constant and loveable addition to any family, but when I am out walking nowadays I see more and more dogs, particularly since we went into lockdown and thousands of families decided to expand their family with a...

No fault divorce update

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Earlier in the week I was worried that, with the new #nofaultdivorce becoming law on 6 April 2022 and the lack of information being given to practitioners about the forms and the online divorce platform, we would struggle to be ready despite all the...

"No Fault" Divorce - is it ready?

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No fault divorce was introduced by the Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020. Its introduction has been keenly awaited and after several delays it will finally come into force on 6 April 2022. As with all family lawyers, the family team at Biscoes...

How a good family lawyer can give you a good divorce

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In a divorce there are no winners or losers, but there is such a thing as a GOOD DIVORCE and you can make this happen with the right approach and the right lawyer helping you. Family law can be complicated and whatever your situation it would be sensible...