Rejected petition: Fact findings in family court to be over 80% sure the alleged events occurred.
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I want the government to change the current family court rules around fact finds. Courts should only deem ‘found’ facts surrounding domestic violence if the fact has been over 80% to have been proven or previously been proven in criminal court.
I want each mother and father of their child to have a fair chance of contact. There has been too many instances in which parents cannot or have limited contact with their own child based on family court findings within a fact find. Currently a family court only needs to be 51% sure that an event occurred. How can a judge be sure such events took place on little to no evidence at all? The current percentage should not deem a parent ‘proven’ to have done anything. Innocent until proven guilty.
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.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
You may wish to sign this open petition which calls for similar action:
'Change family law proceedings burden of proof to “beyond a reasonable doubt”'
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/767449We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.