The Divorce Magazine met up with Divorce Strategist, Suzy Miller to find out how she can help couples going through the divorce process as well as cohabiting couples going through separation. This is what Suzy told us about her role, her job
According to Sir Peter Singer, the ability of parties to conduct an arbitration in relation to their private financial affairs without fear of unwelcome publicity is another important advantage which the IFLA Scheme offers. What may draw people to Arbitration more than
So are family law solicitors going to support the education of their clients with regard to accessing Arbitration – or are they going to effectively hinder the process? Arbitrator Olive McCarthy believes that a setback to the scheme is that unfortunately other family solicitors
It seems clear that Family Arbitration has something to offer in the divorce arena, but will it be adopted by the legal profession as another tool in the divorce tool-box – or be quietly left in a cupboard to be brought into
There is something very liberating when you stop wanting people to change or to change people. We get easily annoyed when people are not acting the way we would like them to. We have so many expectations about just anything and anyone.
Is Arbitration legally binding Well I asked this question of Arbitrators who are, let’s face it, lawyers – so not surprisingly, I got both the ‘technically correct’ answers as well as the ‘in real life’ answers: “It isn’t correct to say that
In this article, I explore how family arbitration UK could provide an element of psychological security on the bumpy road of the divorce journey. I interviewed a range of family arbitrators about whether arbitration saves the client money, and whether the arbitrator’s decision
Should more mediators be paying attention to family arbitration? It has after all been shown to quite effective in the US and Canada and is known to be able to rescue a mediated divorce from crumbling into a nasty expensive court battle. My interest
Recently, my ex and I along with 2 other couples appeared in The Times Magazine on divorce in your 40s. What was interesting about this piece was that each one of the ladies had gone on to work in the area of
“Well it’s the same as being married” was a phrase I heard over and over again but which eventually proved to be a lie. For ten years, my husband and I lived with our three children as an unmarried couple and
In this interview by Suzy Miller, Counsellor and Psychotherapist Paula Farson of Cedar Counselling explains why it makes sense to get psychological support earlier rather than later when navigating divorce or family separation. “Many clients come to counselling in crisis but realise
Alternative Divorce Guide Suzy Miller recently spoke with single mum Vivienne Smith, author of The Single Mums’ Survival Guide, about her journey into single parenthood and how she grew from that experience. “They do say that everyone has a book in them –