Family Law Manchester News

Family support charity, Families Need Fathers, has cautiously welcomed the family-friendly policies outlined in the Queen’s Speech.

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The NSPCC has warned that hundreds of children currently going into care will be sent back to abusive family homes without the support needed to keep them safe from harm.

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The Government has announced that an order has been laid in Parliament to bring the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission (CMEC) back under direct Ministerial control.

Tags: Child Maintenance Payments, Child Support Payments, Custodial Parent, Child Custody, Child Support Agency, Stockport Family Law Advice, Stockport Family Lawyers

The Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass) has released its latest data on care application figures, which show that there were 886 care applications in March 2012.

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Friday 6th April marked the first anniversary of rules coming into force requiring divorcing couples to attend a mediation information and assessment meeting (MIAM), to find out about alternatives to court (such as collaborative law and arbitration), before being able to issue a court application in relation to their financial or child custody issues.

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The government has published its Action Plan for Adoption, outlining its proposals for reforming the adoption system, which it claims is currently too bureaucratic and drawn out.

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National charity, Adoption UK, has welcomed the Secretary of State for Education's announcement that the Government plans to “beef up” adoption support.

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The Law Society has expressed its disappointment at the Government’s refusal to stop charging fees to local authorities for care proceedings, despite the Family Justice Review’s recommendation to do so.

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The government has published its response to the recommendations made by the independent family justice review panel, in which it outlines its plans to reform the system to help strengthen parenting, reduce the time it takes cases to progress through the courts, and simplify the family justice system.

Tags: Family Law Reform, Family Justice System, Shared Parenting, Child Custody, Family Courts, Shared Parenting Advice Manchester, Shared Parenting Advice Lawyers Manchester

Fostering services in England and Wales are in need of radical reform, according to a report published by the think tank, Policy Exchange. The report shows that in some instances severely disadvantaged children are waiting for over a year for a foster placement and that the life chances for many children in the system are appalling.

Tags: Children In Care, Foster Care, Child Custody, Child Contact, Child Custody Advice Manchester, Child Custody Advice Lawyers Manchester

Members of the House of Lords have voted with a majority against government proposals to charge single parents to use the Child Support Agency.

Tags: Child Maintenance Charges, Child Maintenance Reforms, Child Support, Child Custody, Child Maintenance Advice Salford, Child Maintenance Advice Lawyers Salford

Recent figures published by reunite International Child Abduction Centre have revealed a 47% increase in the number of child abduction cases reported to its advice line.

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The U.S. Census Bureau has recently released information on the level of payment of child support. The figures show that in 2009 41.2% of custodial parents received the full amount of child support owed them, down from 46.8% in 2007. The number of these parents who were owed child support payments and who received any amount at all — either full or partial — declined from 76.3% to 70.8% over the period.

Tags: Child Maintenance Arrangements, Child Support Payments, Child Custody, Separation, Child Maintenance Arrangements Advice Manchester, Child Maintenance Advice Lawyers Salford

Ahead of the House of Lords’ scrutiny of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders (LASPO) Bill, Resolution, the association of 6,000 family lawyers and professionals, has warned of its potentially devastating consequences.

Tags: Legal Aid Reform, Family Courts, Child Custody, Child Contact, Family Justice System

The Government has launched a consultation on plans to deal with some of the £3.8 billion in unpaid child maintenance.

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The Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) has said that local authorities and the family justice system must improve their procedures to speed up the adoption process. Such changes include allowing social workers increased discretion to make judgements about the suitability of potential adopters, reform to adoption panels, and of inspection and performance data.

Tags: Child Custody, Child Contact, Adoptive Parents, Family Law Advice Manchester, Family Justice System, Adoption

Single parents’ charity Gingerbread has warned that proposals to charge for use of the future new Child Support Agency (CSA) will penalise many thousands of families who have no alternative but to use the Agency.

Tags: Child Maintenance, Child Custody, Child Support Agency, Child Support Payments Advice Manchester, Child Support Payments Advice Lawyers Manchester

The final report from the Norgrove Review fails to address the bias in the family law system against fathers and grandparents, and will fuel the epidemic of fatherlessness in the UK, according to the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ).

Tags: Child Custody, Child Contact, Child Access, Child Custody Advice Lawyers Manchester, Child Custody Advice Manchester

Most people who need free legal advice on separation, divorce and family breakdown will no longer be able to get it if planned cuts to legal aid go ahead, a new report from Citizens Advice has warned. Those worst affected will be women with dependent children.

Tags: Divorce, Child Custody, Family Mediation, Separation, Family Law Advice Manchester, Family Law Advice Lawyers Manchester

Children's charity, Action for Children, has called for more people to adopt children from Black and Asian backgrounds. According to the charity, children from these ethnic groups accounted for only 4% of the children adopted last year.

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