The research has also gone to the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Board on Family Law under Sir Thomas Boyd-Carpenter, which has been set up to oversee implementation of the Act. The implementation of the Family Law Act amounts to the biggest shake-up of divorce law in decades. A main aim is to encourage couples to settle disputes over children and finances amicably and outside the courts. Divorce disputes last year cost taxpapers 61 million in legal aid, and the Act will encourage greater use of mediation, which will be free for couples that qualify for legal aid. In general, divorces will not be granted until arrangements about children and finances have been settled.
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