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When you are divorcing or dissolving a civil partnership, there is lots to think about.  Your children, your home and not least – your money.  What will happen to all of these?  Who will get the house? Can you afford to keep it? How often will the children be with each parent? How will you share the finances, and how can it be fair?   Here, Juliette … [Read more...]

The summer school holidays are just a few weeks away. For separated parents, school holidays are a huge logistical challenge, for which careful planning is often the only solution.  But how do you go about it? Here, Juliette Dalrymple, director and family and child mediator at Family Matters Mediation offers some tips. Two types of holiday arrangement Separated parents are likely … [Read more...]

Juliette Dalrymple A deputy High Court judge has recently adjourned a divorce case to encourage them to engage in alternative dispute resolution. Nicolas Allen KC – an advocate of non-court dispute resolution (NCDR), being trained as an arbitrator himself – said that the case was a typical example of the type of case in which the court could exercise its new powers – which came into effect … [Read more...]

A dad from Lincoln who came to Family Matters for online mediation has thanked Family Matters for helping to sort out arrangements for seeing his daughter. At the start of the mediation, he wasn’t seeing his daughter but when the case was closed, he was seeing her regularly, including overnight arrangements. He said:  “When I went into this, I was thinking at the time that I was unsure … [Read more...]

The Ministry of Justice has issued a press release relating to family mediation vouchers. The press release is as follows: Begin. More than 27,000 separating families have saved money, protected their children and avoided lengthy, combative courtroom battles, thanks to a £23.6 million government scheme. over 27,000 families supported through amicable separation by vouchers scheme … [Read more...]