Family Mediation Voucher Scheme Extended Until March 2026
The Government’s Family Mediation Voucher Scheme has been extended until March next year, offering £500 to help couples resolve family disputes before they reach court.
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The Government’s Family Mediation Voucher Scheme has been extended until March next year, offering £500 to help couples resolve family disputes before they reach court.
Resolving Separation: How family mediation can make a difference
Family mediation offers a constructive, cost-effective way to resolve separation issues without going to court. Discover its benefits and how it works.
Family Mediation
With Family Mediation Week due to take place between 22-26 January 2024, we explain some key points about family mediation and how the process works. Family Mediation – What is it? Family mediation is designed to assist divorcing or separating couples reach an agreement in relation to financial and/or children matters that arise as a
Mediation scheme expanded to help thousands more families
The government is providing an extra £5.4 million to help families resolve disputes such as contact arrangements through mediation instead of going to court. Under the scheme, mediation vouchers worth £500 are provided to divorcing couples with the aim of helping them find mutually agreeable solutions and freeing up space in the family courts. It seeks
Judge urges couples to use £500 mediation voucher scheme
One of the UK’s leading judges has urged divorcing couples to use the £500 voucher that enables them to access mediation services to settle difficult disagreements. Sir Geoffrey Vos, Master of the Rolls, made the suggestion in a complicated case involving a couple who had separated in 2017. The father had regular unsupervised contact with
Extra £1.3m to help couples use family mediation scheme
The government is providing an additional £1.3 million to enable more separating parents use the family mediation scheme. The extra investment is expected to help families resolve disputes away from court, such as those involving financial or contact arrangements for children and takes investment in the initiative to more than £3m since its launch in
Mediation voucher scheme expanded to help more couples
The mediation voucher scheme is being expanded to help thousands more separating couples resolve disputes without having to go to court. The scheme, launched by the Government in March, provides a £500 voucher for mediation services with the aim of finding amicable solutions to disagreements. It seeks to spare eligible families the trauma of going through