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Sammanfattning: ABSTRACTTitle: Children´s perspective at custody dispute? -A qualitative study of the experiences of Family Law Social workers of whether parents in custody dispute have a children´s perspective or not.Authors: Malin El Fhaily and Marlene HaglundThe purpose of the study was to investigate the experiences of social workers at Family Law about whether parents in custody dispute have a children´s perspective or not. The six respondents have been interviewed with semi-structured questions. They are employed as Family law social workers in one small community and one bigger community in the middle of Sweden. The interviews were conducted in April 2017. In the study, a qualitative content analysis was used to analyze the gathered material. The result showed that the respondents experienced that a lot of the parents in custody dispute tries to have a children´s perspective, but the parents have different opinions of what the best of their child is, and this is the reason a dispute andunpleasantness arises. The result also showed that the respondents experienced that some of the parents in custody dispute have too much focus on their own conflict and not being able to see the best interest of their child. The task for respondents was in this case to get the parents to cooperate and solve their dispute so they could move focus from their conflict to the child, and to get the parents to agree in questions concerning the best of their child. The Family law social workers in the study experienced that their tasks in custody dispute was to visible every child´s best interest for both the parents and the court.Keywords: Children´s perspective, Child´s best, Custody dispute, Family law, Family law social worker.