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Keeping the peace at Christmas – top tips for shared parenting over the festive season
Lauren Evans
23 February 2021
Back to school…but is it time for a change?
The dark and dank month of January is finally behind us and the glimmer of hope brought about by the possibility of a brighter Spring with a ‘less locked-down version of lockdown’ is here. We are told that children may return to school from 8 March and after a long period of home-schooling and working from home, many friends, family and colleagues are reviewing their lives, careers and general ‘set up’ in an effort to ensure that 2021 and beyond is a time where they and their families can thrive, rather than merely survive.
17 February 2021
Relocating with children following family breakdown and the impact of COVID-19 and Brexit
These days we routinely read news pieces about people leaving London. For example ‘2020 saw record number of homebuyers move out of London as Covid sparks exodus from city life’ and ‘the population of the U.K.’s capital city could fall in 2021 for the first time in more than 30 years… as the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic prompts people to reconsider big-city life’’. [U.K. economic outlook report by PwC, released in January 2021]
5 February 2021
Children’s Mental Health Week: managing parental conflict
This week marks Children’s Mental Health Week, first launched in 2015 by Place2Be to bring attention to the importance of children and young people’s mental health.
25 January 2021
Parental disputes over childhood vaccinations
The roll out of the Coronavirus vaccine brings a potential new area of dispute, which the family court dealt with recently in the case of M v H and P and T [2020] EWFC 93.
21 January 2021
Family mediation in a pandemic – the challenges and opportunities for separating couples
The past year has caused each of us to reflect on what is most important in our lives. Family. Friends. Freedom. It has also made us look forward, to life post-pandemic; and this, along with the pressures of lockdown, home-schooling, and everything else 2020 had to chuck at us, has understandably resulted in lots of couples deciding to go their separate ways.
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- Reflections on The Split
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