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20/02/2014
According to a number of media reports, the couple's decade-long bitter dispute had resulted in 24 court appearances arguing over custody of their children. Not once was an agreement reached, but after the judge issued her orders, the parents finally came to an agreement.
Speaking at the High Court earlier this week, Mrs Justice Pauffley is quoted as saying: "I suggested that, when the boys were dropped off and picked up, each parents should be made welcome in the home of the other, invited to sit down around the kitchen table and offered a cup of tea.
"Pleasingly, very pleasingly, against the background of the last 10 years, each parent reacted positively to that idea and it's been good for the boys.
"The father, impressively, has taken the trouble to provide supplies of a particular health-giving drink for the mother, and I'm sure the mother has been responding with similar thoughtfulness when he's called in at her home."
It is understood the custody battle over the couples' children started shortly after the twins were born prematurely 12 years ago. With each baby weighing just three pounds each, they had to spend the first eight weeks of their life in a hospital.
The situation put "enormous pressure" on the parents and when their children were allowed home, the mother was "intensively protective" of her sons while the father "felt excluded".
The couple's relationship ultimately broke down as a result of the strain and they separated before the twins' first birthday. They have since appeared in the family courts on a number of occasions, and on their last arrival, the judge told the unnamed couple: "My sense was that I could have been doing little more than applying a sticking plaster to a deep and persistently infected wound."
The pair followed the judge's advice and it has been reported that they are now working out the details regarding custody of their children.
The judge added: "If there was one thing the parents seemingly failed to do for all of the years they were in dispute, it was that they did not consider the impact upon the other - and the children themselves - of their actions.
"I am hopeful, very hopeful, that for the future similar mistakes will not be made.
"The details will be worked out by the parents. They welcome without hesitation the firm message that this is a final order, that there is no need for any further court involvement and that any return to litigation would be a profoundly retrograde step."
(JP/CD)
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Judge Orders Couple To Resolve Differences Over A Cup Of Tea
A judge has ordered a couple – who have spend the last 10 years arguing over their twin sons – to resolve their differences over a "nice cup of tea".According to a number of media reports, the couple's decade-long bitter dispute had resulted in 24 court appearances arguing over custody of their children. Not once was an agreement reached, but after the judge issued her orders, the parents finally came to an agreement.
Speaking at the High Court earlier this week, Mrs Justice Pauffley is quoted as saying: "I suggested that, when the boys were dropped off and picked up, each parents should be made welcome in the home of the other, invited to sit down around the kitchen table and offered a cup of tea.
"Pleasingly, very pleasingly, against the background of the last 10 years, each parent reacted positively to that idea and it's been good for the boys.
"The father, impressively, has taken the trouble to provide supplies of a particular health-giving drink for the mother, and I'm sure the mother has been responding with similar thoughtfulness when he's called in at her home."
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It is understood the custody battle over the couples' children started shortly after the twins were born prematurely 12 years ago. With each baby weighing just three pounds each, they had to spend the first eight weeks of their life in a hospital.
The situation put "enormous pressure" on the parents and when their children were allowed home, the mother was "intensively protective" of her sons while the father "felt excluded".
The couple's relationship ultimately broke down as a result of the strain and they separated before the twins' first birthday. They have since appeared in the family courts on a number of occasions, and on their last arrival, the judge told the unnamed couple: "My sense was that I could have been doing little more than applying a sticking plaster to a deep and persistently infected wound."
The pair followed the judge's advice and it has been reported that they are now working out the details regarding custody of their children.
The judge added: "If there was one thing the parents seemingly failed to do for all of the years they were in dispute, it was that they did not consider the impact upon the other - and the children themselves - of their actions.
"I am hopeful, very hopeful, that for the future similar mistakes will not be made.
"The details will be worked out by the parents. They welcome without hesitation the firm message that this is a final order, that there is no need for any further court involvement and that any return to litigation would be a profoundly retrograde step."
(JP/CD)
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