Seanad debates
Wednesday, 12 November 2003
Courts and Court Officers (Amendment) Bill 2003: Second and Subsequent Stages.
I endorse Senator Tuffy's comments that, however we do it, the emphasis must not be on adversarial family law but on people sitting around a table, facing up to the fact that they will not live together and somehow arriving at a mediated solution as to how they deal with custody, property and access issues. It could be done in an afternoon, compared with the lengthy discovery process to discover people's earnings, bank accounts, property transactions and so forth which goes on for weeks and months and achieves relatively little.
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