The Family team at Ramsdens are supporting Family Mediation Week which this year is taking place between the 17th-21st January. This annual initiative creates the opportunity to raise awareness of family mediation process and of the benefits it can bring to separating families.

At Ramsdens, our family team have been receiving a growing number of enquiries from individuals that have not dealt with their finances after dealing with the divorce themselves online.

The first Monday of the New Year is often referred to as ‘Divorce Day’, as statistics shows an increase in divorce enquiries following on from the New Year and Christmas period.

According to research carried out by Women’s Aid, one in seven (14.2%) of children and young people under the age of 18 will have experienced domestic abuse at some point in their childhood.

As part of our series of blogs supporting 16 days of Action Against Domestic Violence, we focus on the impact of domestic abuse on the mental health of victims.

Emotional abuse is a grey area within the realm of abuse as many people don’t know what constitutes emotional abuse or how it is perpetrated on an individual. Victims of emotional abuse believe that abuse is a ‘strong’ word and don’t think they are ‘abused’ but this is far from the truth.

During the COVID-19 pandemic our Family team have seen an increase in domestic abuse cases with an increasing number of those being subjected to abuse being men.

Honour based violence is an umbrella term used to describe practices which punishes individuals for their disobedience.