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The UK's leading Shared Parenting charity

FNF is the leading UK charity supporting dads, mums and grandparents to have personal contact and meaningful relationships with their children following parental separation.

We offer information, advice and support services helping parents to achieve a positive outcome for their children.

Our online Forum and our network of over 50 UK Branches also offer pro-bono guidance of solicitors and others familiar with the operation of the family courts.

Join FNF or register for free to receive our newsletters, surveys, research and more.  As a member, you can also access our Forum in which experienced volunteers, including solicitors and McKenzie Friends can answer your questions. 

Visit your nearest FNF Branch where meetings are run by experienced and knowledgeable Volunteers who want to help you.  Some of the more established branches run solicitors' clinics for the benefit of our members. 

We  have a telephone Helpline (0300 0300 363) which provides first-line support.

FNF membership costs less than a few minutes of a typical solicitor's time - and could save you a fortune by being better prepared for the choices ahead!  Find out more about free registration and joining or simply donate.  Your support is crucial in enabling us to sustain our mission working for parents and children who are being denied a loving relationship.

This is a testimonial email we received recently from a service user:

“I have a solicitor who charges ￡285 + VAT per hour. She's good but she is very expensive. FNF with its ￡39 membership fee has given me more practical advice and provided me with company of fellow fathers who are striving to achieve contact with their children against all odds. Something my solicitor can never offer. I have had 3-4 sittings and have had more practical advice than I have had from my solicitor (who is process driven and has no emotional connect) for last 6-8 months and I don't even want to mention how much I have paid her in this time. FNF has been amazing for me. I would recommend it to all fathers going through a divorce and wanting contact with their child/children. We are all in this together.”

 

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  • When my divorce started, my lawyers said it would only cost a "few thousand pounds". No one mentioned that this only included dealing with the divorce petition process which is a trivial exchange of allegations between the parties to convince a judge to agree to the divorce and that it had absolutely no effect on the children or the finances - whereas I thought we were talking about the lot. Having wasted that money, I then found myself being asked for tens of thousands of pounds more to do the stuff I actually cared about, regarding kids and finances. Now the MoJ has digitised the divorce forms and part of the process, and other forms will follow, in an effort to make it easier for anyone to be guided through the divorce technical process much more easily. A great step forward, allowing ponderous legal processes to be drastically shortened and cheapened for the benefit of those suffering this nightmare. It's much simpler than people generally think! And the MoJ is spending £1billion to automate things further. It's sad we have so many divorces, but it's even sadder that divorce victims are led to spend tens of thousands of pounds for the "privilege", often depriving children and parents of much needed funds! https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/UKHMCTS/bulletins/1eec551 https://www.gov.uk/divorce https://www.gov.uk/apply-for-divorce

  • Nigel Huddleston MP said a number of grandparents' "had been visited by the police simply for sending cards or gifts to their grandchildren". There are of thousands more cases every year of the abuse of anti-harassment laws in misguided attempts to cut parents and grandparents out of children's lives. Well-intentioned laws were not properly thought through and lack balancing measures to prevent their abuse. The consequences for children are frequently disasterous. It is right that barriers to grandparents maintaining relationships with children should be lowered. However, usually when a parent is denigrated by an ex-partner, so are the grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins and in fact anyone who retains a relationship with the targeted parent. Tackle these issues and ensure effective enfocement of Child Arrangement Orders and most of the issues relating to grandparents and wider family will disappear. There may be cases where greater rights for grandparents might assist in flushing out the nature of hostility of the parent with whom the child lives and help ensure that one side of children's families are not completely cut out, but this will only scratch the surface of the defficiencies of the family justice system. Please support us by sharing this page, liking it, following us, making a donation or becoming a member. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5697961/Grandparents-right-grandchildren-parents-split-new-law.html#ixzz5Enfe5KZK Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5697961/Grandparents-right-grandchildren-parents-split-new-law.html

  • Amy J Baker is an American Parental Alienation expert. Here she gives some preactical tips on how to protect children from being alienated, if you get a chance before the relationships breaks down and contact stops. Please support us by liking our page, following us, sharing this, donating to or joining FNF. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/caught-between-parents/201804/protecting-children-parental-alienation

  • Today is Parental Alienation Awareness Day. We used the occasion to raise the issues of PA at a Westminster Policy Forum on the future of family justice. Last year we developed a questionnaire that identified frequently occurring alienating behaviours. Seem familiar? https://fnf.org.uk/component/phocadownload/file/223-fnf-pa-day-2017-quiz Please support us by sharing, liking and follow us.

  • This is a tragic story of coercive control of a young man by his girlfriend. It is shocking when such behaviour exists regardless of whether the perpetrator is a man or a woman. Domestic abuse against men is considered by many to be far more common than people think and under-reported. There are likely to be various reasons for this, but one that occurs frequently is the fear that they will lose access to their children. The Office for National Statistics says "The most common type of domestic abuse experienced in the last year was partner abuse, with 4.5% of adults reporting this type of abuse. Whilst a higher proportion of women reported experience of partner abuse in the last year than men (5.9% compared with 3%), similar proportions of men and women reported experience of family abuse". Please support us by liking, sharing and following us, making a donation, registering with us for free or becoming a member. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-43799850

  • As the number of applications to family courts reached a new high of 52,168 last year, grandparents are also increasingly seeking to protect their relationships with their grandchildren. Not sure it needed 'experts' to confirm that most of these are paternal grandparents. Please support us by liking, sharing and following us, making a donation, registering with us for free or becoming a member. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/08/grandparents-go-court-custody-battles-grandchildren/


FNF HSSF Kite Mark Award

Families Need Fathers has been awarded the Help and Support for Separated Families Kite Mark which is a new UK government accreditation scheme for organisations offering help to separated families.

Families Need Fathers work with a range of family law professionals, including Family Law Panel

 

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