The firm’s director, Charl Botha state, “We are not the contemporary adversarial family law consultancy; philosophically we have redrawn the map so that we see ourselves first and foremost as conflict managers and problem solvers for families in disputes or high conflict separations or divorces.”

The standard adversarial family system has failed many families, parents, and minor children. In South Africa, family law is changing towards a non-adversarial dispute resolution process. Therefore, children’s well-being and safety following parental breakup is dependent on their parents conduct throughout and after the separation and divorce process which we manage and lead the dispute resolution to ensure the most cost effective, less traumatic and future focused solutions.

Family law consists of a unique crossroad of emotional, financial, and legal challenges for parents separating or divorcing each other. It entails the rights presented by law – compensation for sacrifices made for the family unite, entitlement to benefit from the increase in net family wealth, and financial and parental plan agreements to support the ongoing care of children. It furthermore deals with the rights that are people oriented, rather than act-oriented, such as continued care and contact of children.

The arena of parental alienation is fraught with controversy particularly surrounding the pathogenic parents’ psychological seduction of the child, as a form of child abuse and gender-based violence. Problems relating to distinguishing among abuse, estrangement, gatekeeping and alienation to legal reforms, and therapeutic interventions needed to address AB-PA (Attachment Based – Parental Alienation), pose considerable challenges for practitioners and justice reform in South Africa.