CONNECTED FOREVER A couple with children who separate know that they will always be connected even when the children are grown up. Many clients are in their 40s when they finally decide to separate, perhaps after years of the relationship not working. The children are of an age where they might be able to understand the break-up and are often expecting it, but they need the best co-parenting to help them through it. NOT ALL ABOUT THE DETAIL You will arrive at decisions to liv

If you make a change, it will be clunky at first. If you try something different for 3 months, it will alter the dynamics between you, hopefully for the better. Bear in mind that what you have been doing hasn't worked. If agreement is made, you can decide to ask me to draw up an interim agreement for a certain time, an agreement binding in honour only, or a fully binding Mediation Settlement (MS) under the Mediation Act.

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