How have you found doing financial mediations online? As well as face to face mediations, I’ve been doing online financial mediations for a number of years where clients live a long distance from each other or with clients who cannot meet face to face for health or medical reasons. So, for me, going into lockdown has only meant a small shift to doing a little more online than usual. That … [Read more...]

Like most of the world, I have been living under the COVID lockdown for the last few months.  However, I am one of the lucky ‘golden ticket’ winners who, due to their underlying health condition, has to follow stricter lockdown rules (I received a letter from the NHS saying I was allowed to open a window, woohoo!). I rebelliously flout this to leave the house to empty the bins, which is … [Read more...]

We are into the third month of lockdown – although there has been some relaxation; our strange new world appears set to continue and our lives may be permanently changed.  You may already have separated before or at the start of lockdown and have to review the arrangements you have in place, either for your children or your finances, or your relationship might have ended during … [Read more...]

I am a dad in lockdown.  My daughter Rose is 10 – nearly 11. She will be going to secondary school in September 2020 and I am especially worried about how lockdown will affect her, missing all the special things she would normally do at the end of year six. I am a keyworker working shifts, which means that the times at which I can have Rose often changes and can’t be a routine. … [Read more...]