Last week, a group of family law solicitors launched a new dispute resolution option for certain types of family matter: family arbitration. There are currently 27 trained family law arbitrators in England and Wales who are available, willing and able to make a final, binding award of property and finances on divorce, dissolution or separation without anyone needing to go near a court. They have formed the Institute of Family Law Arbitrators to promote, administer and uphold the principles of the scheme (see http://ifla.org.uk). So we at CFLP thought we’d explain a bit more about the context, and have a…
