Guidance could be included in a forthcoming green paper, say campaigners who attended a meeting with family justice minister Lord Filkin last week.
The news follows the announcement that year-long mediation pilots, designed to divert parents from court battles, would begin in September. The voluntary schemes have been dismissed as "meaningless" by groups such as Fathers 4 Justice and the Equal Parenting Council.
At the meeting with parents' groups and law professionals, Lord Filkin said the pilots were part of a wider reform process that could include a new legal presumption of substantial parenting time and a requirement to treat allegations and instances of domestic abuse separately from contact cases.
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