A Cultural Shift Away From Family Court … To Family Mediation
A Cultural Shift Away From Family Court … To Family Mediation
FMC PRESS RELEASE
The government aims to steer separating families away from the stress, costs, and delays of family courts. According to John Taylor, Chair of the Family Mediation Council, these proposals could accelerate a cultural shift towards mediation as the first stop for out-of-court dispute resolution.
“Professional mediators help you to create long-term solutions for your particular circumstances, rather than leaving it to a court to make decisions for your family,” he says. Let’s work together to make family mediation the norm and create better outcomes for all family members.
Government proposals set to steer families away from stress, costs and delays
New government family law proposals could accelerate a cultural shift for separating couples away from family courts, says The Family Mediation Council (“the FMC”).
A series of new measures proposed in a consultation this week by the Ministry of Justice aim to help separating families see out-of-court dispute resolution as their first stop.
“Too many separating couples currently see a default position of taking their dispute to a family court, with all the costs, stress and delays that involves,” says John Taylor, Chair of the FMC.
These proposals could accelerate a cultural shift, steering couples away from the family court, and helping them see that mediation can produce outcomes for all family members which are better than those the court could provide.
This consultation shows Ministers recognise the value of family mediation in helping separating couples make parenting and financial arrangements without all the complications involved in going to court.
“It will help shine further light on a process that has the potential to help many thousands more separating couples for many years to come.”
