Negotiation

Practical advice on working with your ex-partner to make decisions about children and finances. Articles cover mediation techniques, communication strategies and creating agreements that work for everyone.

Arranging to Take Your Child on Holiday

How to plan a holiday with your child and coordinate timing with your ex to avoid conflicts.

Breach of Contact or Residence Order: What to Do

When the other parent breaks a court order about contact or where your child lives, here's what you can actually do about it.

Checklist: 10 Rules of Negotiating with Your Ex Partner

Keep conversations with your ex-partner productive by following these 10 practical rules for co-parenting discussions.

Checklist: Agreeing Visitation

Use this checklist to work out fair visitation arrangements with your ex and protect your right to see your children regularly.

Child maintenance: What Am I Paying for?

Child maintenance is the money one parent pays to help cover everyday costs of raising their child after separation.

Developing an Amicable Relationship with Your Ex

How to build a workable relationship with your ex when you share a child together.

Equality in Family Courts: Letter to the PM

Separated fathers call on UK government to address inequality in family courts where dads get limited access to their children.

Hiding Arguments from Your Children

Keep arguments with your ex private so your children don't feel caught in the middle or blame themselves for the split.

Making Joint Decisions About Your Child's Future

How to make joint decisions about your child's future when you're no longer together with their mother.

Mediation: What Is It and Is It for Me?

Mediation lets you work through disputes with a neutral third party before court, and agreements can save time and money.

Parental Responsibility: Have it? Need it? Get it.

Know what parental responsibility actually covers and whether you have the legal right to make major decisions for your child.

Resisting the Temptation to Compete with Your Ex

After custody changes, competing with your ex through gifts or leniency backfires and harms your child, here's why to stop.

Using Mediation Effectively

Mediation helps separated parents work through conflict and reach agreements on custody without the cost and stress of court battles.