Family
Useful website links
Links are given below for some websites you may find useful.
Advice Now: independent, not-for-profit website providing accurate, up-to-date information on rights and legal issues.
Carelaw: website by Resolution and children's charity NCH provides information for children in care.
Child Abduction
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Hague Convention on private international law -the text of the international treaty on child abduction
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Reunite: Charity concerned with child abduction and international custody disputes
Child Support Agency official site: They are an executive agency of the Department of Social Security and are responsible for running the child support system which was introduced in April 1993.
Collaborative practice (no-court divorce)
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Collaborative Family Lawyers: General information about collaborative practice. Our head of department is the secretary for this regional group
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Collaborative Family Law Group: The website of the collaborative Family Law Group, a part of Resolution.
Community Legal Service: Website provides a wide range of legal information from a variety of sources
Consumer Credit Counselling Service: CCCS is a charity dedicated to providing confidential, free counselling and money management.
Court Service: This website includes information and leaflets about court procedures on-line.
Clerksroom : Providing barristers, arbitrators and mediators throughout the UK.
DadsUK: Dads UK is a helpline for single fathers. There are no group meetings.
Expert witnesses: A directory of expert witnesses.
Families Need Fathers: A registered UK charity which provides information and support to parents, including unmarried parents, of either sex.
Forced Marriage: Information and advice on forced marriage.
Getting Your Get: Information for Jewish men and women in England, Wales and Scotland about divorce according to Jewish Law, by Sharon Faith BA (Law) (Hons) and Deanna Levine MA LLB.
Gingerbread : The National Organisation for Single Parents featuring a directory of local groups and meetings.
Legal updates
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Text of recent Acts of Parliament
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UK family law publishers Jordans, including legal updating and a good range of links to other sites – principally aimed at lawyers
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Daily Law Notes: – brief reports on recent case developments – principally aimed at lawyers
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Law Society Gazette: The official Law Society journal.
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Legal Services Commission: This website gives information about eligibility for publicly-funded legal services (Legal Aid).
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Lord Chancellor’s Department:The Government Department responsible for the courts and legal services.
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Department for Constitutional Affairs: The government department responsible for the courts and legal services.
Mediation UK:A wide range of information on the issue of mediation.
NSPCC:Childrens' charity.
National Association of Child Contact Centres: Child Contact Centres provide a neutral venue for establishing contact between parents and children.
National Association of Citizens Advice Bureau:Free initial advice available.
National Council for One Parent Families:Provides advice and information for one parent families.
National Family and Parenting Institute: A national charity providing support on parenting matters.
Parentline Plus:Offers help and information to over 85,000 parents and families each year.
Property Sites:
Finding a property
Property prices
Find out what your property is worth
Find out how the price of a house has changed
Relate: Relate provides marriage counselling services at centres around the UK.
Relationships: The BBC site dedicated to helping children and parents through divorce.
Resolution: Formerly known as the Solicitors Family Law Association.
Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE): SCIE works with people and organisations throughout the social care sector to identify useful information, research and examples of good practice.
Association of Child Abuse Lawyers:An organisation of claimant compensation lawyers and other professionals founded in 1997 in order to ensure that survivors of abuse could be provided with suitably empathetic, knowledgeable and trained lawyers.
Association of Lawyers for Children:The ALC is an organisation which promotes justice for children and young people within the legal system in England and Wales.
Women’s Aid:Registered charity offering support for women who suffer domestic violence. Helpline number, campaigns, news, events and job vacancies.