Submitted on Tuesday 10th May 2022
Rejected on Friday 20th May 2022
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
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.
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.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
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 petition which calls for the same action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/603110
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