The Act marked a shift in the legal approach to divorce. This changed divorce from being a concrete event, to a procedure. It did this by attempting to meet two goals. Firstly, it was envisioned that the Act would give space for marriages to be saved. Secondly, when a divorce could not be saved, then it encouraged a peace-making, conciliatory approach to the process.

It's not even worth asking these questions because I don't care. There is nothing and no one to care about in this story, except maybe to feel sorry for the poor children. Throughout this the writing is excellent and I really enjoyed the constant build up. However, for me, the ending just fell a little bit flat. We told that A and B were happening but never really got to see the play off. There is a lot of plot in this and you really have to be paying attention or you will miss important parts. The person leading the game should play ‘That’s What Friends Are For (The Vulture Song)’, from Walt Disney’s The Jungle Book.Part II set out a procedure for divorce which required spouses seeking divorce to attend a preliminary Information Session and to seek mediation as a first step. Part II and related sections of other parts were repealed and partially replaced by section 18 of the Children and Families Act 2014 after they were abandoned in practice in 1999.

But what happened to the Fellowship? The Family, a five-part documentary series by Jesse Moss that debuted on Netflix earlier this month, makes the case that this shadowy religious organization best known for the moral incontinence of some of its members is actually one of the most nefarious operations in American politics. Based in large part on the 2008 book of the same name by Jeff Sharlet, The Family draws a through line from the Fellowship to President Donald Trump, casting the latter as a crucial component in the Fellowship’s quest for global domination. Members of Congress, Moss and Sharlet argue, are secretly lobbying for an invisible organization that’s been “hiding in plain sight” for the past eight decades. The Fellowship, Sharlet says in one scene, is “the darkest expression of religious life that I’ve found in 20 years.” (It’s hard to hear this quote and not immediately think about a few other potential contenders.)

What is in the Family Law Act 1996?

This book starts off with one of the most over-used tropes around at the moment - Anna and David Witherall have the perfect life until...it all gets derailed. Only this time it went in a few unexpected directions and I became quite absorbed in this story. I actually really enjoyed it. It wasn’t fast paced but it was clearly going somewhere. Unfortunately it went to a just a few too many somewhere’s. Talk about unreliable narrators... this book has them in spades! You couldn’t trust a word anyone said.