Guest Blog: 3 Top Tips for Separating Parents – from someone speaking from experience
3 Top Tips for Separating Parents – from someone speaking from experience Emily Morris 23 is a Fixer. She is also in her final year of her law degree at The University of York. Emily’s parents are divorced. This process began whilst Emily was an A-Level student living...
Guest Blog: Please Listen
John Bell of the Iona Community spoke recently on BBC4’s Thought for the Day about the importance of families having meals together, talking about their day and listening to each other. This sounds like a simple prescription, yet as John Bell said, many young people...
FMW Daily Focus Day 3: Please Listen
Don't Listen to Us! This video, created in partnership with charity Voices in the Middle, features young people explaining (sarcastically) why there’s no point in listening to them. We hope you will anyway! For more information take a look at the Voices in the Middle...
FMW Daily Focus Day 2: A Safer Space
Providing a Safer Space I’ve been recently working with a couple who are divorcing and we were looking at how to handle the new roles that both these parents now face whilst going through the transition. One area I discussed with them was accepting that their ex has...
Guest Blog: My parents’ separation would have been less upsetting for everyone if my parents had known about mediation
I was chatting to my new hairdresser (Mandy, 23). She asked me what I do for a living – “I try to help separating and divorcing families talk through some of the upset and conflict and help sort out arrangements for the future”. “Crikey” she said (or words to that...
FMW Daily Focus Day 1: A Better Way
Lasting Damage: is there a Better Way? Over the years I’ve seen a lot of changes not only in the practice of family law but also in the backgrounds of clients. For many people in the early 80’s separation stigmatised them because they were the only members of...
Family Mediation Week 2017
Taking place from 23-27 January 2017, Family Mediation Week aims to raise awareness of mediation and its benefits for separating families. Read each daily focus for more information about how mediation can help you.
What are the legal grounds for divorce?
Contrary to popular belief, divorces are not granted for 'Irreconcilable differences' under UK law . You may have read about Hollywood couples citing this in their proceedings but actually, this is one of only two possible grounds for divorce available in California,...
Parents of young children? You’re not alone!
Mediators are not legal advisers, nor are we relationship counsellors. However, what we do do, is provide information and ‘signpost’ our clients to local services that can offer help and support, answering any questions you may have about a wide range of topics. As...