This website supports the publication Fathers Matter – A guide to contact on separation and divorce. This best-selling handbook, now in its second edition, is the first and only step-by-step legal guide written for fathers seeking or struggling to maintain contact with their children after separation and divorce.
Whether you are a father in this predicament or someone connected to a father in that situation, if you’re reading this page then you will be interested in obtaining legal assistance and/or information on fathers’ rights and child custody issues.
If you want to save thousands of pounds on legal fees, avoid incurring unnecessary costs, find out what your rights are and help yourself, this thoroughly revised and expanded second edition of Fathers Matter will enable you to do just that.
The average family law solicitor charges £150.00 per hour – including 15% VAT that amounts to £172.50 per hour. In fact, depending upon where the firm is based, those hourly charges could be anything between £100.00 and £500.00 per hour. It is a well-known fact that substantial legal costs are incurred at the beginning of a case when a party is seeking extensive information from the lawyer on basic details. These costs could be avoided. Written by a former specialist family law solicitor who actively campaigns for fathers and the family, Fathers Matter was specifically created to save thousands of pounds in legal fees by providing the information needed so as to avoid wasting money on a solicitor and to enable parties to help themselves in proceeding with their cases. The RRP of Fathers Matter is £18.50 (available to buy here directly from the Publisher for the discounted price of £16.50). On an hourly charge-out rate of £150.00 (£172.50 inclusive of VAT) that sum of £16.50 would buy you less than 7 minutes of a solicitor’s time. How much legal advice would you receive in under 7 minutes? In a time of recession how many solicitors do you know who have reduced their hourly rates?
Take a look at the extensive contents by downloading the PDF sample below.
In the words of Bob Geldof KBE:
I wish this book had been around when I went through my contemptible experiences at the hands of the Family Courts. It would have helped explain what was happening to me. It could have been the clear, cool voice of knowledge, experience, understanding and sympathy that is necessary to take men through the grief and pain and loss of having their children taken from them simply on the basis of their being male – a very suspect condition if you’re a father, at least in the blinkered, myopic, outdated and reactionary view of our legal hierarchy. This book is a timely, invaluable guide around the many hurdles and obstructions the Courts will put in a man’s way to stop him being a dad to his kids. Read it and learn. Then try and change things so that children may know their dad loves them even if the law does not.
(Comments on the First Edition)
Please note this website supports the publication Fathers Matter – A guide to contact on separation and divorce by Celia Conrad only. It is neither the front for an organisation nor part of any organisation and has no connection with Fathers Matter Family Rights Group and any other organisation or entity carrying or using the name Fathers Matter.
