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What crisis? A way out of the Family Court mess

by brightside
Posted on December 21, 2018
in Change, Court, family law, separation

What crisis? A way out of the Family Court mess I read another article this week slamming the Family Court. It’s stressed to breaking point and in disarray. No surprise to anyone who has had to spend any time there. But what attracted my attention in this particular article was a statistic posted in the[...]

It’s been a tumultuous week in Hewitt-Cohen land – professionally and personally. Running a business is often stressful and when work relationships fall over it can feel like a break-up of your own. Then there was this new website to launch. On top of that, if you are living in a household of teenagers[...]

by brightside
Posted on January 29, 2018
in Change, Co-parenting, Court, family law, New beginnings

I listened to a man the other day who thought he was a pretty rubbish dad. He had always been nervous with his daughter – he dropped her when she was a baby, and one day he was holding her and she was burnt by the kettle. Set against a fractious marriage, when the time[...]

I went to a fantastic party on the weekend. There were nearly 200 people at my old friend’s family home. There was lots of champagne, lots of speeches and lots of love. Guests covered three generations – the party girl’s kids and her parents, her husband’s kids . . . and her first husband, his[...]