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Issues currently available online
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What Needs to Follow the General Election Parental Alienation Awareness Interview: Professor Michael Lamb A Guide to your Legacy
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The Standpoints of the Three Major UK Political Parties on Separated Parenting Cafcass - Crippling Delays FNF in Scotland Successes of Kids in the Middle and "Beyond the Nuclear"
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20 Years of The Children Act 1989 FNF's 35th Anniversary Party What You Can Do to Help FNF FNF Branches & Groups - A Growing Success Story An Interview with a Victim of Parental Alienation
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General Election Campaign Interview with District Judge Nick Crichton Family Law in France Relocation Campaign Annual General Meeting & Volunteer’s Conference
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Leave to Remove & Relocation - Is it time to reconsider Payne v. Payne? Farewell Peter Hill! FNF at Glastonbury Shared Parenting - Shared Benefits | |
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35 years of Families Need Fathers Is it time to reconsider Payne v Payne? History of Central London Branch Family Law 2044
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Do open courts mean the end of injustice? A look ahead to 2009 '12 year fight' family let down again Separated Parents Support Centre opens in Reading | |
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The arrival of CMEC Interview with CMEC head Janet Parakeva Hymangate - the story goes on Conservatives make bold proposals Government to 'Think Fathers' |
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Why the Cafcass approach to police checks just doesn't add up Interview with Cafcass Chief Anthony Douglas Shared Parenting in Denmark AGM Report F4J fold again - or do they? |
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Avalanche! The Times and the Tories take up the cause Kids In The Middle campaign Father's Day in words & pictures Why Feminism Needs Father Nothing But A Gold Digger? A family law solicitor on pre-nuptial agreements |
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Judges speak, but what do they say? STOP PRESS - Judge brands 12 year contact fight 'a public scandal' CAFCASS to help keep separated families in touch Victory over McKenzie friend refusal Leave To Remove: The Lawyer's View and How I Did It Thank you, Sue Secker!
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12 year fight for No Contact Justice at last? Sir Mark Potter intervenes Why FNF should support contact centres The Marriage Contract Tales of the expected from the CSA
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Justice at last? Always saying goodbye The CAFCASS experience "The Shame of Losing Custody of Your Children" Contact denial to go on
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Residence transferred to fathers following mothers obstructing contact in two landmark recent cases Father jailed for refusing to pay the CSA The CAFCASS experience Unreliable Evidence NSPCC - working to support fathers
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The McKenzie Friend Debate - Paid or Unpaid? Judicial Continuity continued... a judge in a million The myth of child welfare A year on the helpline
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196,400 reasons why the CSA is inept Snakes and Ladders in the PRFD International Parental Alienation Awareness Day Ireland and the Legal Tiger Pro-Contact
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Shared Parenting makes children safer
Family Law Barrister at
Grandparents Special - Parenting Page
Progress and Campaiging in
Shared Parenting is the best way to reduce unpaid child maintenance
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Hotel California, A Tale of Two Jurisdictions Openness of the Family Courts, A Decision Near The Good Thorpe, Bad Thorpe Routine BT's Latest Ad Campaign Derogatory to Non-Resident Fathers
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FNF member busts open secret family courts Grandparents' Social Services battle FNF meets Lord Chancellor
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(pdf 6400 kb) | 10th Annual Fathers Day Boat Trip An Absolute Majority of MPs support Shared Parenting A Father reunited with daughter and son The Contact Centre experience The CSA file |
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Support for FNF parents UK Fathers to get parental equality Death of F4J National Society for the Prevention of Contact with Children |
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NSPCC |
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"Parent-ectomy" father gets Residence Volunteers Conference report Male Role Models |
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Teen pregnancy |
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Shared Residence for lesbians Election briefing
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Parenting Plans Bringing up babies The Blunkett saga |
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US Election, Kerry or Bush? "no bias in the Family Court" Parenting Workshops |
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CAFCASS Draft version 1
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69% of fathers do want 50:50 Shared Parenting
Reversal of Residence: V v V New Family Justice Council to help Court Users
Naming and Shaming of 4 judges who exclude McKenzie Friends
Can discredited CAFCASS be saved?
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Judge blames the system for failing fathers
Accessing Medical Information
Judge Munby |
| 59: February 2004 (pdf 864 KB) |
Contact Denied - even in Death
The Data Protection Act
Eurodivorce
Girls Need Fathers |
| 58: December 2003 (pdf 1.17 MB) |
Bob Geldof says "Get Political"
Legal Aid Special FNF of F4J? |
| 57: Autmn 2003 (pdf 974 KB) |
Social Policy Industry Politics PAS Psychiatrist Dies Domestic Violence: The Consultation |
| 56: Summer 2003 (pdf 887 KB) |
QC or not QC, that is the question Not Guilty: the case in defence of men Mums and Sons, Dads and Daughters |
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55: Spring 2003 |
Automatic PR delayed |
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By River and Canal Targeting the Reporters |
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The Contact Dilemma Between the Lines - LJ Thorpe |
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New CSA rules New Articles of Association
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Enforcing contact Domestic Violence
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New CAFCASS AGM special DNA - Genetic Testing
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Reform Group PR consultation paper
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Prior McKenzie Issues without online versions.
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