Rejected petition Make it law that both parents automatically get 50:50 custody on separation.

This petition is to request that the government amends the Children's Act to reflect the dynamics of family units in todays society, and that on separation, a child/children would automatically have the right to equal access (50/50) to both parents, unless any safeguarding concerns are apparent.

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The current system is already over run with child arrangement cases and this time should be better used to deal with the most complex and challenging cases.

In most situations it’s just down to the control of one parent who dictates access. If both parents automatically had the legal right to equal access (unless safeguarding were already involved). Then only the more challenging cases would go to court, this saving time, money and the emotional damage to peoples wellbeing, mainly the children.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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You may wish to sign this petition which calls for the same action: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/603110

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Date submitted 10 May 2022
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