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Parental care 50/50 in seperation cases, and make parental alienation a crime.

Submitted on Wednesday 28th September 2022

Rejected on Monday 3rd October 2022

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Parental care 50/50 in seperation cases, and make parental alienation a crime.

Petition Details

To change the law, or pass legislation which makes it a presumption in law that parental care will be shared 50/50 in separation cases, unless impractical or evidenced risk of harm exists Also to make parental alienation a criminal offence under domestic abuse or child abuse legislation.

Additional Information

Survey of 1,513 people revealed PA an issue for 79%.
80% resulted in health concerns including poor mental health
21% lost a job
8% sold their home to pay legal fees
55% experienced financial insecurity
69% applied/attended court, 42% multiple occasions
58% reported breaches of orders 34% reported multiple breaches
Mediation, 70% had contact with child in last year, versus 69% sorting things informally.
This creates cost and time burdens on courts, healthcare, welfare systems and causes harm


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This petition was rejected

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.

We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:

Automatically grant equal access rights following separation: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/618584

Make parental alienation a criminal offence: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/615816

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