Helping Parents in Dispute - Child-Centred Mediation At County Court

List of contents

Contents: Introduction;
The significance and duration of agreements reached in mediation;
Fathers and fairness;
Mediation and violence;
Solicitors, district judges and courtrooms;
The best and worst of mediation;
Conclusion: future family mediation;
Bibliography;
Appendices;
Index.

About the author

Greg Mantle, Senior Lecturer in Probations Studies, Department of Social Work, Anglia Polytechnic University, UK. Probation service practitioner and researcher. Doctoral research on offender userism/ consumerism in the probation service. Teaching interests include professional power, research methods, criminology and penology.

Summary

This title was first published in 2001. When marriages break down, most parents experience difficulty in agreeing on contact or residence arrangements for their children. Family Courts Services provide mediation as a way of resolving differences and many parents accept this offer of assistance.

Product details

• Authors: Greg Mantle, Mantle Greg
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.06.2017
• EAN: 9781138734807
• ISBN: 978-1-138-73480-7
• No. of pages: 198
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Civil law, civil procedural law; LAW / Family Law / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, Social Work, Family Law