What are FIDOs Objectives and Proposals?
FIDO’s Objectives are to: Influence public, legal and political opinion Take a test case to the House of Lords followed by an appeal to the Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg if necessary Change the law relating to divorce FIDO’s Proposals are: There should be a cooling-off period during which a couple would be encouraged to obtain professional help. During this period the only permitted legal steps would be to ensure that both parties can survive appropriately given their financial circumstances. If at the end of that period one party still wants a divorce then so be it. Marriage should be “financially neutral” so that in the event of a divorce (after reasonable provision has been made for any children) both parties would be put in the state in which they could reasonably have hoped to be in the event that they had not got married.
