Author: Helen Pittard

Putting Children First in Separation: A Message to Separating Parents | 174 Family Law

Dear Separating Parents: Putting Children First A significant new report from the Family Solutions Group has recently been launched, accompanied by a powerful letter from the Children’s Commissioner for England addressed directly to separating parents. The message is clear and important: when parents separate, the experience for children can be very different from the experience of the adults...

When Child Maintenance and 50:50 Shared Care Collide – OS v DT [2025] EWFC 156 (B): A Landmark Decision.

Disputes about children are always emotionally charged. When those disputes become intertwined with child maintenance, positions can quickly harden — particularly where one parent seeks a 50:50 shared care arrangement and the other opposes it. In many cases, arguments about equal shared care are not solely about parenting time. They are also about financial consequences. This creates...