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Co-parenting after separation – Philippa Johnson

As part of Family Mediation Week 2021, FMA board member and former chair Philippa Johnson has written an article about co-parenting after separation. Read here

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FMA Statement Family Mediation Week 2021

FMA is supporting Family Mediation Week 2021. In previous years, the FMA has taken the lead on coordinating all the activity of Family Mediation Week. By agreement, this year the FMC are coordinating Family Mediation Week for the first time. …

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The FMA Timeline – Covid restrictions 2020

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Exploring inclusion, diversity and equality – podcast interviews with mediators conducted by Fi Glover from the Radio 4 Listening Project.

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Financial Remedies Courts – how they work and what they are for

An Overall Structure of the Financial Remedies Courts and the Role and Function of the Lead Judge been published for the Financial Remedies Courts (FRCs), together with a Good Practice Protocol  The Financial Remedies Courts have been established as a subsidiary structure …

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Pensions research

Research conducted by Shoosmiths family law team suggests that one in five couples have no idea what to expect when it came to divorce and, more specifically, that one third of married couples and civil partners don’t know anything at …

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Child maintenance options – arrangements made

The Department for Work and Pensions has published a report on the outcomes for families after Child Maintenance Options had provided free impartial information and support. Mediation clients may not need to speak to CMO, but a conversation with CMO …

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Neil v Neil [2019] EWHC 3330 (Fam) Family Division, 22 November 2019, Moor J

Neil v Neil [2019] EWHC 3330 (Fam) Family Division, 22 November 2019, Moor J  The couple began living together in 1992 and married in 2007. They both had children by previous relationships and one child together. In 2002, they set …

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Neil v Neil [2019] EWHC 3330 (Fam) Family Division, 22 November 2019

Case Summary: Neil v Neil [2019] EWHC 3330 (Fam) Family Division, 22 November 2019 England and Wales High Court (Family Division) Decisions: Neil v Neil [2019] EWHC 3330 (Fam) (22 November 2019)  

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Domestic Abuse

Research by criminology expert Dr Jane Monckton Smith suggests that men who kill their partners display a pattern of behaviour, a ‘homicide timeline’ that police could track to help prevent deaths. Using all the cases on the Counting Dead Women …

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