Family difficulties can be very stressful and upsetting. As a result, they have a tendency to escalate into all out war, which can leave everybody with battle-scars.
Our 'survival' guides explain your rights, how the law works in practise, and what other options you might have. We also try to give you practical advice as to how to get through it.
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Divorce - a survival toolkit
Whether you are ending a marriage or a CP, our guide explains how the law works, how children and money issues fit in, and your options for working these out. Also includes practical advice to help you and your children through...
Parents apart
This guide will help you make arrangements about your children if you do not live together, or are splitting up. It aims to help you find ways to be co-operative parents and families. Families, after all, go on forever even after...
Trouble at school
It can be alarming when things start going wrong for your child at school. Whether you are getting letters sent home or your child has been excluded, it can feel like a slippery slope to disaster - but it doesn't need to be like...
LivingTogether
Do you live with your partner but aren't married or in a civil partnership? On these pages, we explain exactly what rights couples living together really have, and the simple steps they can take to protect themselves and their families...
Working parents
Being a working parent is difficult. But there are laws to try and make it easier be a top-quality parent and a treasured employee at the same time. This guide explains what they are, and legal agony aunt, Beverly Reid, advises...
Expecting your rights
If you are about to become a parent you are probably excited. But when you are not hopping from foot to foot with pure joy, you might also be a little bit worried about how it will go down at work, how you'll survive financially...
Family Mediation
Splitting up with your partner is usually traumatic. As well as the pain and upset of separating, you're suddenly faced with lots of uncertainty about the future. Who will look after the children? What will happen to the home? Family...
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