Good Divorce Week – Putting Paid To The Blame Game

'Stop playing the blame game'. It is one of the worst kept secrets to a 'good marriage'. Could it also be the key to a 'good divorce'?

Today marks the beginning of Resolution's 'Good Divorce Week', a campaign to cast the spotlight on various initiatives and proposals to promote a non-confrontational approach to separation.

Families who have experienced an acrimonious divorce first hand may dismiss the concept of a 'good divorce' as illusory. Others whose thoughts immediately turn to similar sentiments of 'consciously uncoupling' and 'happily even after' would also be forgiven for any initial scepticism. However, the campaign contains a number of legislative and practical recommendations which, if adopted by Government and/or embraced by our profession, have the ability to improve the experiences of couples and children affected by divorce.

Key among these is a renewed call for the introduction of the so-called 'no fault divorce'. Since 1995, successive Governments have considered and dismissed draft legislation to supplement or...