Harper’s Bazaar Interviews Our Co-Founders Asking ‘Can You Have A Good Divorce?’
It’s always such a joy when the focus of an article about divorce is how to do it well. The more we can acknowledge that ‘good’ and ‘divorce’ are not mutually exclusive, but highly achievable, the more we will change the narrative around what is a normal life transition for over 100,000 families in the UK every year.
Thank you Marie-Claire Chappet for approaching the subject of divorce in the way you did, and for such a fun conversation with our co-founders Harry Gates and Samantha Woodham.
As Harry says: “Couples are very often taken aback by the adversarial quality of divorce proceedings. When you go to court, you’re up against your former spouse, somebody you loved – somebody you may still love – perhaps the father or mother of your children. You’ll go to court and you’ll be described as Mr Smith versus Mrs Smith, and the barristers will all refer to each other as their opponents or ‘the other side’. There is nothing collaborative or collegiate about this at all.”
“We certainly took the view that this was all being presented from the wrong end; what we ought to be focusing on at the beginning is a joint solution, because at the end of the day, that’s what the court is trying to do.”
You can read the full article here.
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