Recommended Reading For Separated Dads

Helping Children Cope with Divorce has been named One of the 10 Best Parenting Books of the Year by Child Magazine. This revised edition helps you minimise stress during your initial break-up and ultimate separation, explain divorce to children so they don't blame themselves, protect children from parental hostilities and navigate conflicts of loyalty and alliance.

The Truth About Children and Divorce presents compassionate guidelines for divorcing parents on how to manage a divorce and its aftermath while promoting child resiliency and wellbeing, discussing such topics as the benefits of constructive fighting, handling the legal side of a divorce appropriately, and therapeutic parenting.

Published annually, Hershman & McFarlane Children Act Handbook provides a single volume source of key children proceedings legislation and related guidance. It contains consolidated, fully amended and annotated texts of the Children Act 1989. This book meets the need for a reliable, up-to-date and yet still portable source and will be used in court by all child law practitioners, judges and social workers.

Schedule 1 applications ensure that a child's financial needs are met, they can provide three forms of financial relief for a child, namely: a maintenance order, settlement, or transfer of property order against either or both parents a periodical payments order or lump sum order in favour of a child who has reached 18 and is undergoing education/training variation of an existing maintenance agreement containing financial arrangements This new publication is a practical guide to the practice, law and procedure in respect of Schedule 1 applications and includes case summaries plus sample forms and orders.

Authoritative and fully up-to-date, this new handbook provides invaluable coverage of best practice on every aspect of family law. Published in association with Resolution, the leading family lawyers' association, and edited by its National Chair, it is both comprehensive and practical. The contributors are all leading family lawyers and between them cover all the key aspects in detail from marriage and civil partnership through to children proceedings and inheritance claims. Designed to be user-friendly, the handbook offers a range of time-saving checklists, pro forma letters and a useful contacts section.