News about what Shared Parenting Scotland is doing and other significant developments.

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Contact order enforced through change of residence
A recent English court appeal judgment denied an application by a mother to re-consider a court decision to move children from living with their mother to living with the father. In this case a court order was made for the children to spend time with t…

Call to rewrite Scottish Family Law
Shared Parenting Scotland has called on the Scottish Law Commission to address the Heath Robinson complexity of Scottish family law relating to parents, children and guardians in Part 1 of the Children Scotland Act. The Scottish Law Commission has call…

Welsh moves to support separating families
The Delivering Justice for Wales report published in May 2002 includes descriptions of various moves to support separating families and keep private law cases out of court. The overall number of private law applications to court involving divorce and s…

Court is not the place to fix relationship problems
Interviewed on the Radio 4 Broadcasting House Programme the head of the English and Welsh family courts Sir Andrew McFarlane stated that courts should be the last resort for resolving relationship disputes where there aren’t issues of domestic abuse or…