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Why people in happy relationships should discuss breaking up
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For the vast majority of us, talking about a break-up or a divorce is something we only really want to do when it s absolutely unavoidable and even then many of us shy away from confronting the bigger issues.
After all, dwelling on what might happen if the relationship were to break down seems at odds with enjoying a happy partnership or marriage.
However, a new campaign from the Positive Parenting Alliance is asking parents to do exactly that as part of The Parents Promise.
By Jo Edwards2021-05-14T11:07:00+01:00
The historic notion of a family lawyer was of a career litigator who treated relationship breakdown as just another commercial dispute. With the advent of national family lawyers’ organisation Resolution in the early 1980s, the Code of Practice to which all members sign up and a focus on specialist training and interdisciplinary working, there has been a sea-change in approach.
There is a fresh breed of family lawyer who triages each client, signposts to the right pathway and does not think of court as the ‘norm’ or encourage it as the only or best way forward. Resolution and others have worked hard to persuade government, after the 2013 legal aid cuts and in pursuit of the return of funding for initial legal advice and signposting to non-court alternatives like mediation, that family lawyers are part of the solution, not the problem. Resolution has also been a key player in the successful campaign for no fault divorce, which will hopefu