Family law

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  Woman wins permission to look at late father's adoption files

  9 Sep 2014: Court grants request on basis that father, his birth mother and adoptive parents are all known or assumed to be dead

• My ex emotionally abused me for years. The law must change to end this cruelty

  21 Aug 2014: Kate Bailey: It is right that domestic violence is under review. Even when I tried to protect my child from my ex-husband, the justice system didn’t support me

• Top judge authorises court to cover legal aid in challenge to government

  6 Aug 2014:

  Sir James Munby directs court service to pay for lawyers the Legal Aid Agency refused to provide to ensure justice is done

• Legal aid cuts have left family courts 'at breaking point'

  29 Jul 2014:

  People facing child custody and divorce cases without proper advice as private arbitrations rise, says lawyer's body Resolution

• It’s never ‘just a domestic’ – police culture must change now

  28 Jul 2014: Polly Neate: Domestic violence victims are disbelieved, endangered and punished by the system. Community resolution orders are not the answer

• Free DNA tests piloted in family courts to clear up paternity disputes

  26 Jun 2014: Justice minister Simon Hughes reveals moves aimed at tackling influx of unrepresented litigants following cuts to legal aid

• Thousands of mothers have multiple children taken into care

  23 Jun 2014: Study's author says family courts need to think differently about identifying and helping high-risk young parents

• Too many children are forcibly removed from their mothers

  23 Jun 2014: Diane Taylor: Helping unstable mothers raise the babies they love is surely sometimes a better option than the devastation of removal

• There's no harm in a young child having a night away from its mother

  19 Jun 2014: Jack O'Sullivan: The inaccuracies peddled as respectable wisdom by parenting guru Penelope Leach do more harm than good

• Top family judge adjourns father's contact case amid legal aid impasse

  9 Jun 2014:

  Sir James Munby calls for justice secretary's intervention amid concerns that man's lack of legal aid could disadvantage child

• Simon Roberts obituary

  3 Jun 2014:

  Legal anthropologist who drew on the mediation practices of a Botswanan tribe as a model for dispute resolution in the UK

• Couple who kept 19 dogs lose fight to have children returned from foster care

  29 May 2014: Judge dismisses application for care order to be discharged after parents say they have improved home conditions

• Judges criticise impact of legal aid cuts

  14 May 2014:

  Judicial Executive Board says cuts are often leading to increased costs elsewhere in court system, with extra litigation and longer cases

• Couples should be able to divorce without going to court, says top judge

  29 Apr 2014: Senior family judge also urges ministers to give unmarried couples living together the same rights as married couples

• Emotional child abuse has to be banned – the science backs up our instincts

  31 Mar 2014: Oliver James: The government is right: children need love as much as they do vitamins – and a lack of it often leads to adult psychosis

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