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Shared Parenting Programme Module 4: Dealing with Professionals

Shared Parenting Programme Module 4: Dealing with Professionals. Six Step Programme Step 6: Dealing With Professionals. Contents. Meet the professionals Counselling / Mediation Legal Professionals Educational Professionals Medical Professionals Appeals Procedures.

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Shared Parenting Programme Module 4: Dealing with Professionals

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  1. Shared ParentingProgrammeModule 4: Dealing with Professionals

  2. Six StepProgrammeStep 6: Dealing With Professionals

  3. Contents • Meet the professionals • Counselling / Mediation • Legal Professionals • Educational Professionals • Medical Professionals • Appeals Procedures

  4. Meet the Professionals • Counsellors, mediators • Legal professionals • Guardianship rights • Teachers and schools • Medical professionals • Health boards/social welfare • Voluntary Agencies

  5. Counselling • Resolving marriage/relationship difficulties • Couple and/or individual • Free or private

  6. Mediation: 1 • Marriage/relationship over • Both must attend • If ex-partner says ‘no’, get refusal in writing • Negotiate agreement, give and take • Children, finances, property • Free or private

  7. Mediation: 2 • Solicitors must mention mediation • Give names if requested, lodge certificate with court • All legal actions adjourned • Confidential • Anything said by parents cannot be used in court • Mediators can not be subpoenaed to court • Basis for legal agreement • Can be made order of court

  8. Mediation: 3 • Better than a court-imposed direction? • Both parents ‘own’ the agreement • Greater scope for future flexibility • Perception of biased courts? • One parent may feel no incentive to compromise • One parent may feel no incentive to keep promises

  9. Private Solicitors / Barristers • Seek Family Law practice • High costs • Each letter / phone call adds to bill • Request • Estimate before starting • Regular statement of account

  10. Legal Aid Board • Only one parent will be represented from a particular Center • Means tested • Expect: • Delays • Change of solicitor regularly

  11. Legal: Don’ts • Don’t allow your solicitor to lower your expectations • Don’t feel that letters from opposing solicitor are ‘the law’ • Don’t react immediately to events or letters • Don’t give into threats from anyone

  12. Legal: Do’s • Take control • You are their customer …it’s only a job to them • Present them with their Code of Practice • Write down instructions clearly to solicitor • Respond with ‘holding letters’ to buy time • Request and keep copies of documents • Seek alternative views from friends

  13. Guardianship Rights • Right to health and educational information

  14. Managing Meetings: • What’s your desired outcome

  15. DEALING WITH PROFESSIONALS • What power do they have? • What good can they do? • What harm can they do?

  16. DEALING WITH PROFESSIONALS • Agree agenda • Get relevant paperwork first • Bring Pal/professional • Make Audio or video • Ask for their credentials for your records • Write summary of meeting

  17. Teachers/schools • Build rapport with teachers • Get involved • Ask for copies of report, circulars • Leave SAE’s with secretary • Attendance records

  18. Medical professionals • Ask for credentials • Ask for copy of Guidelines or charter • Family health records • Children’s special needs • Your health needs • Referrals to professionals

  19. HEALTH BOARDS/AGENCIES • Rent allowance • Housing list • Family not single unit • CWO - allowance for parent-child activities • Medical card

  20. APPEALS • Appeals procedures • Documentation • Records • Friend / Stenographers • Solicitors

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