Family Court Crisis is a constituted group based in the United Kingdom.

We are not a charity. We aim to solve a problem: violations of the human and legal rights of children and families in the family courts and social services. We do not wish to become an organisation that ends up perpetuating the very problem we seek to solve.

We are fiercely grassroots and independent, speaking truth to power.

We represent the authentic voice of mothers, fathers, extended family members, and children whose rights and dignity were violated by the services that were supposed to help us.

We provide a supportive community where we can share our experiences, identify the roots of the problems we are experiencing and build consensus on the right ways to solve them.

We engage directly with Government in order to advocate for the interests of our children and families.

Our Founder

Nataly Anderson’s first experience of the family justice system came after her two-year-old twins were kidnapped and taken abroad by their father. When she called the police, they told her this was a civil matter and she needed a lawyer.

This is one of the first points of failure of the family justice system: criminal acts such as kidnap and domestic violence are not prosecuted by law enforcement. Families are forced to engage lawyers. They then find themselves dealing with the civil and family justice systems.

In civil courts, evidence does not need to meet the criminal standard of proof. Judges have unlimited discretion. Family cases are held in private: those who speak publicly about these cases can be prosecuted for contempt of court. The appeals system is manifestly not working. Therefore, judges can do what they want. There is nothing families can do about unlawful outcomes.

In 2020, Nataly realised there were huge communities of parents on social media experiencing the same problems – in the UK, in Croatia (where her children are still falsely imprisoned) and in many other countries.

Nataly realised it would be helpful to form a global organisation to share information, identify the root causes of the crisis in the family courts and form a community of parents as stakeholders to represent their own interests before Governments.

Nataly considers that the problems in the family courts are a threat to democracy and the rule of law. If we cannot be confident that judges in family cases will act in an unbiased manner, upholding the legal and human rights of children and families, what does it say about how they will act in other cases?

If law enforcement services and the courts let criminal acts go unpunished, what does that say about how safe our society is?

Nataly grew up in Horsell, the same village near Woking where Sara Sharif was murdered after two years of sickening torture that shocked the United Kingdom in 2023 and 2024. Sara had been placed in the custody of her father even though the family courts knew he had a decade-long history of violence towards multiple women and children, and a criminal conviction.

We believe that there are thousands of children across the country who have been placed in similar danger due to perverse decisions being made in family court cases.

Our aim is to draw public attention to the horrific outcomes of family court cases and the revictimisation of domestic abuse victims in a manner that meets the UN definition of torture.

We believe that wrongfully separating children from their mothers and putting them at risk of abuse is a crime against humanity in peacetime.

We are aware that there are fathers who have been treated in this way.

We consider that both mothers and fathers are ripped off in family courts, tortured and stripped of their assets. They are left homeless and jobless, their health destroyed. All the resources which should have been invested in their children’s upbringing are poured into years of worthless court cases. The psychological damage to children of being dragged through this is incalculable.

We believe there is a better way to deal with relationship breakdown. We believe that families should be at the heart of designing a new system, not organisations or individuals with vested interests. We believe it should be radically simplified, making it affordable for families and for society.

We are seeking justice. We urgently need to be reunited with our children, and we must be compensated for the financial losses and damages we have suffered at the hands of a family justice system that is anything but just.