Contact

Contact: The New Deal brings together all the key recent statutory and non-statutory changes affecting and informing this important area of the law. This book: provides a comprehensive guide to the new contact provisions contained in the forthcoming Children and Adoption Act 2006 covers developments in mediation, collaborative law and information provision and includes an evaluation of the new parenting plans analyses the Private Law Programme, in-court conciliation and the important changes to the role and approach of CAFCASS examines the developments in the court's treatment of contact cases in which domestic violence is alleged summarises the main legal principles and relevant case law provides an overview of the key research and sets out the rationale for reform also addresses the topical issues of family court openness and the voice of the child The text is supplemented by key statutory materials (including the Children and Adoption Act 2006).