Jess Knauf
Bio
Jess Knauf is the Director of Client Strategy at Mediate UK and Co-founder of Family Law Service. She shares real stories from clients to help separating couples across the UK.
Jess is author of The Divorce Guide in England & Wales 2016.
Stories (8)
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When We Lost Our Grandchildren
I'll never forget the day Emma stopped answering our calls. My wife Florence and I had just returned from our usual Tuesday morning coffee when I noticed three missed calls from our son, James. "Dad, I need to talk to you," his voicemail said. His voice sounded hollow, defeated. "Emma and I are done. She's asked me to move out."
By Jess Knauf8 days ago in Families
When Thursday Became the Hardest Day
I used to love Thursdays. It was fish and chips night, football practice with my son Jake, and bedtime stories about dragons. Now, Thursdays are the day I sit in my empty flat, staring at photos on my phone, wondering if I'm doing any of this right.
By Jess Knauf9 days ago in Families
C100 Form Explained: Applying to Court for Child Arrangements. AI-Generated.
When parents separate, worries about children don’t usually arrive all at once. At first, they sit quietly in the background. Then something happens. A disagreement over school nights. A holiday that hasn’t been agreed. A pick-up time that suddenly changes.
By Jess Knauf19 days ago in Families
We Agreed to Wait a Year Before Divorcing
I was sat in my car outside Tesco, engine off, shopping list forgotten, when it properly hit me: I had no idea where I'd be living in six months. Rachel and I had decided to separate three weeks earlier, but beyond "we'll sort it out amicably," we'd done precisely nothing. The girls were in the middle of their A-levels, we were both exhausted from years of low-level bickering about money, and now I was having a minor panic attack in a car park because I couldn't answer basic questions about my own life.
By Jess Knauf21 days ago in Families
The Marriage That Ended Over Marmalade. AI-Generated.
I didn't think the end would come over toast and marmalade, but that's exactly how it happened. We were sitting at the kitchen table on a Tuesday morning, sunlight streaming through the window like nothing was wrong. He was reading something on his phone, I was spreading butter in careful, even strokes, and somewhere in the silence between us, I realised we'd become strangers who happened to share a mortgage.
By Jess Knauf3 months ago in Families
