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Parenting Together
Day 4 of Family Mediation Week brings us blog posts and a video on the theme of “Parenting Together.” Bill Hewlett, an inspirational mediator and all round good-egg from Australia, writes a piece about how the great-ness of family mediation

Children’s Voices: New blog posts
In support of Family Mediation week, today Duncan Fisher from Kids in the Middle blogs about their work and contextualises it in relation to the Voice of the Child report and the government response to it. Read his blog here.

Rachel’s Poem Video: Divorce from the perspective of an 11-year old girl
Day 3 of Family Mediation Week focuses on “Childrens Voices.” Today this wonderful video clip has been released. It shows child actors reading the words of “Rachel’s Poem.” The poem was written by an 11-year old girl about her parents

Family mediation client talks about her experiences of mediation
Continuing on the theme of Financial Sense, the Family Mediators Association have today published a short video and blog post of a client talking about her experience of going through mediation on financial and children matters. The video is short

Myths about resolving financial disputes in mediation
Today’s focus for Family Mediation Week is Financial Sense. As part of this, David Allison from Family Law in Partnership has written a helpful article which dispels some of the common myths around using mediation to resolve financial disputes. Read

It’s time to choose a better way: Able Mediation supports Family Mediation Week 2016
Every year, thousands of families are torn apart by bitter court battles. Relationships between separating parents are irretrievably broken, and all too often their children are caught up in the middle. But it doesn’t have to be that way. There

Guest of the Month at Ashley Wilson Solicitors
Thank you to Mira Gohil at Ashley Wilson Solicitors for inviting me to be Guest of the Month. I hope the information I have provided for their blog on Mediation Information and Assessment Meetings (MIAMs) will be helpful to clients.

Support for making full financial disclosure
Most clients find the process of making full financial disclosure time consuming. Many also find it difficult as they may not have access to documents or they may not be used to dealing with finances. However, it is a pre-requisite

Children to be given a voice in family court care proceedings
It’s great to hear news that children are finally to be given a voice in family court care proceedings. Read more here. I was greatly impressed by members of the Family Justice Young Peoples Board (FJYPB) when I heard them