The recent Whitehall report has proposed a reorganisation of family justice, under which people would be able to begin their divorces online and courts would be viewed as a last resort.
The new divorce information hub would give a step-by-step guide, covering topics from how to dissolve a marriage to maintenance and child care arrangements. The main factor behind the reorganisation is to encourage the courts to be used as a last resort. This is being pushed in a number of ways;
- By giving people the resources to help themselves it is hoped they will opt to do this and take monetary and childcare disputes out of court.
- To encourage the use of mediation and the new information hub first.
Opposition
The report has rejected the idea of giving parents equal rights so that they would share access to the children. This has been strongly opposed by campaigners for fathers rights as a ‘betrayal of children and families’, Ken Sanderson Families need Fathers. Fathers4Justice, Nadine O’Connor viewed the report as a ‘monstrous sham’.
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