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89 - Summer 2010

What Needs to Follow the General Election

Parental Alienation Awareness

Interview: Professor Michael Lamb

A Guide to your Legacy

 

 

88 - Spring 2010

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"

 

 

87 - Xmas 2009

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

 

 

86 - Winter 2009

General Election Campaign

Interview with District Judge Nick Crichton

Family Law in France

Relocation Campaign

Annual General Meeting & Volunteer’s Conference

 

 

85 - Autumn 2009  

Leave to Remove & Relocation - Is it time to reconsider Payne v. Payne?

Farewell Peter Hill!

FNF at Glastonbury

Shared Parenting - Shared Benefits  

 

84 - Summer 2009 

35 years of Families Need Fathers

Is it time to reconsider Payne v Payne?

History of Central London Branch

Family Law 2044

 

 

83 - New Year 2009

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

 

82 - Christmas 2008

(Pdf 1.5MB)

The arrival of CMEC

Interview with CMEC head Janet Parakeva

Hymangate - the story goes on

Conservatives make bold proposals

Government to 'Think Fathers'

 

81: Winter 2008

(pdf 2 MB)

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?

 

 80: Autumn 2008
 (pdf 2.5MB)

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

 

79: Summer 2008

 (pdf 2 MB)

 

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!

 

 

78: Spring 2008

 (pdf 2 MB)

 

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

 

 

77: December 2007 

(pdf 2.71 MB)

 

Justice at last?

Always saying goodbye

The CAFCASS experience

"The Shame of Losing Custody of Your Children"

Contact denial to go on

 

 

76: September 2007

(pdf 2.60 MB)

 

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

 

 

75: June 2007

(pdf 2.40 MB)

 

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

 

 

74: April 2007

(pdf 2.27 MB)

 

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

 

 

 

73: February 2007

 

(pdf 2.12 MB)

 

 

 

Shared Parenting makes children safer

 

Family Law Barrister at Central London Branch

 

Grandparents Special - Parenting Page

 

Progress and Campaiging in Scotland

 

Shared Parenting is the best way to reduce unpaid child maintenance

 

 

 

Christmas 2006 

(Pdf 2.17 MB) 

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

 

71: September 2006

(pdf 1.64 MB)

FNF member busts open secret family courts

Grandparents' Social Services battle

FNF meets Lord Chancellor

 


70: Fathers Day 2006

(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

 69: March 2006

(pdf 565KB)



Support for FNF parents

UK Fathers to get parental equality

Death of F4J

National Society for the Prevention

of Contact with Children


 

68: Winter 2005

(pdf 1MB)

NSPCC
Testosterone
Domestic Violence on Men is funny?
Parenting workshops
Life on the FNF Helpline

 

67: September 2005

 (pdf 104KB)

"Parent-ectomy" father gets Residence
(see issue 56)

Volunteers Conference report

Male Role Models

 

66: June 2005

(pdf 905 KB)

Teen pregnancy
Health visitor complaint
Domestic violence statistics
10 top tips (pass to your ex)
Collaborative Law
A co-parenting agreement

 

65: Spring 2005

(pdf 1.12 MB)

 

Shared Residence for lesbians

Election briefing

 

 

64: March 2005

(pdf 1.08 MB)

Parenting Plans

Bringing up babies

The Blunkett saga

 

 

 
63: Winter 2004

(pdf 6.2 MB) 

 

 

US Election, Kerry or Bush?

"no bias in the Family Court"

Parenting Workshops

 
 

62: Autumn 2004

(pdf 1.17 MB)

 

CAFCASS Draft version 1
Emotional Abuse
FNF Forums
Shared Parenting in Sweden
Child Abduction in Germany

 

 61: Summer 2004
(pdf 4.6 MB)
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? 
 
 

60: Spring 2004

(pdf 3.12 MB)

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

 

55: Spring 2003
(pdf 1.34 MB)


Automatic PR delayed
Children born out of wedlock
Still have no legal Father
New CSA rules
Does PAS Exist?

 

54: Winter 2002/3

(pdf 2.57 MB)

By River and Canal

Targeting the Reporters
 

 53: Summer 2002

(pdf 2.41 MB)

The Contact Dilemma

Between the Lines - LJ Thorpe 

 

52: Spring 2002

(pdf 675 KB)

 

New CSA rules

New Articles of Association

 

 

51: Winter 2001/2

(pdf 1.31 MB)

 

Enforcing contact

Domestic Violence

 

 

50: Autumn 2001

(pdf 921 KB) 

 

New CAFCASS

AGM special

DNA - Genetic Testing

 

 

49: Summer 2001

(pdf 1.5 MB)

 

Reform Group

PR consultation paper

 

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