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Reform the Family Courts, Child Maintenance System and Childrens Social Care.

Submitted on Saturday 9th August 2025

Rejected on Wednesday 20th August 2025

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Reform the Family Courts, Child Maintenance System and Childrens Social Care.

Petition Details

We call on Parliament to reform family law to ensure 50/50 shared parenting presumption, enforce contact orders, make child maintenance reflect parenting time, strengthen safeguarding for all parents, increase court transparency, and criminalize parental alienation to protect children’s wellbeing.

Additional Information

Family courts often sideline loving parents—both fathers and mothers—who stay involved. The system punishes caring dads and mums alike, ignores abuse warnings, and enforces unfair maintenance based on income—not time spent with kids. How can this be right when it harms children’s wellbeing, mental health, and family stability? We demand urgent reform: equal 50/50 shared parenting, fair maintenance, stronger safeguarding, and full transparency. Kids deserve justice—now.


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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.

This petition calls for actions which are already covered by existing petitions such as:

Enforce Contact Within 30 Days, Outlaw Parental Alienation, fast track hearings
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/734158

Give parents who split up automatic 50/50 shared care of their children
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/704218

Review and reform child custody arrangements
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/711426

Reform Child Maintenance – require parental mediation and proof of care
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/726008

Review and reform Cafcass to address systemic failings and protect families
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/714670

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