Family justice system
Services
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Apply for a non-molestation or occupation order: Form FL401
Ask the court to make an order protecting you and any relevant child from abuse or harassment by a named person, or to prevent them living in your home.
Guidance and regulation
- Family Mediation Voucher Scheme
- International parental child abduction
- The HMCTS Reform Programme
- HMCTS Reform: Family fact sheets
- UK-EU cross-border divorces
News and communications
- Family members taking on vulnerable children to receive better legal support
- Plans to protect children under new mediation reforms
- Mediation to help thousands more families avoid costly legal battles
- “Blame game” ends as no-fault divorce comes into force
- Pioneering approach in family courts to support domestic abuse victims better
Research and statistics
- Research into safeguarding processes in Child Contact Centres in England
- Family Court Statistics Quarterly: October to December 2022
- Family Court Statistics Quarterly: July to September 2022
- Northern Ireland Courts and Tribunals Service Quarterly Provisional Figures July to September 2022
- Family Court Statistics Quarterly: April to June 2022
Policy papers and consultations
- Supporting earlier resolution of private family law arrangements
- Early resolution of private family law arrangements
- Increasing the use of mediation in the civil justice system
- Future inspection of Cafcass from 2021
- Draft changes to the Family Procedure Rules arising from planned implementation of the Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- Strategic Engagement Group Meeting Chair’s Summary - September 2021
- Cafcass annual report and accounts 2014 to 2015
- Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service annual report and accounts 2013 to 2014
- Family Justice Board action plan
- Operation of the Family Courts: Government Response