Rising cost of divorce encourage couples to ‘nest’ together
Splitting couples are facing a rising cost of divorce with a big increase in court fees, and many are facing up to the challenge of asset-sharing and high property prices by turning to novel solutions to deal with the change. One of the new approaches to parenting after divorce is what’s being called the bird’s nest approach, a shared custody arrangement where the children stay at home and parents move around them, as depicted recently by TV programmes The Affair and Transparent. The emphasis in bird’s nesting is on parents…