Shared Parenting Information Group (SPIG) UK
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Making Contact Work
A Consultation Paper on
Facilitating Contact and Enforcing Contact Orders
Issued by the
Children Act Sub-Committee of the
Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Board on Family Law
Contents
- The Nature of the Problem
- The Rationale for Contact: Its Benefits and Risks
- The Nature of Parental Resistance to Contact: Why are contact disputes
so often so intractable?
- Making Contact Work: How can contact arrangements best be made and sustained?
- The enforcement of contact Orders
- What happens in other Countries?
- Imprisonment:
- whether there is a power to imprison;
- whether this is used in practice;
- if an order forimprisonment is made whether this is ordered to
take effect immediately or is suspended;
- if imprisonment is ordered what is the usual term;
- Fine:
- whether there is a power to fine;
- whether power used;
- Amount of fine;
- Transfer of custody: whether a court might order a transfer of custody
to the parent who has been denied access in breach of an order;
- Education Programmes: whether these are available to encourage co-operation
and reduce conflict;
- Mediation: whether this is available to improve communication, manage
conflict, and facilitate agreement;
- Encouragement: what other means of encouragement to co-operate are
available?
- Opposition by child: whether a child has a right to oppose access;
- General comments: whether there are any general comments about their
system of enforcement or facilitation of enforcement of contact not already
covered.
- The specific questions to which we seek responses
- A summary of how other Countries approach these Issues
Available in Adobe format: http://www.open.gov.uk/lcd/family/abfl.pdf
or by post from:
The Secretariat
Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Board on Family Law
Third Floor South
Southside
105 Victoria Street
London, SW1E 6QT
Responses required by 22 June 2001
David Cannon
Last updated - 4 April 2001
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