Contact: The New Deal

An essential book for all professionals acting, advising and assisting on residence and contact issues, 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 new 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 recent research and sets out the rationale for reform;
• also addresses the topical issues of family court openness and the voice of the child.