Editing The Family International (section)

=== The Family (1995–2003) ===
After Berg's death in October 1994, Karen Zerby (known in the group as Mama Maria, Queen Maria, Maria David, or Maria Fontaine) assumed leadership of the group.

In February 1995, the group introduced the ''Love Charter'',<ref>{{cite web |url=http://thefamily.org/dossier/charter/overview.htm |title=Charter of the Family International – Governing Documents |website=TheFamily.org |access-date=2016-07-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100825230258/http://www.thefamily.org/dossier/charter/overview.htm |archive-date=2010-08-25 }}</ref> which defined the rights and responsibilities of Charter Members and Homes. The Charter also included the ''Fundamental Family Rules'', a summary of rules and guidelines from past TF publications which were still in effect.

In the 1994–95 British court case, [[The Right Honorable|the Rt. Hon.]] [[Alan Ward (judge)|Lord Justice Alan Ward]] ruled that the group, including some of its top leaders, had in the past engaged in abusive sexual practices involving minors and had also used severe [[corporal punishment]] and sequestration of minors.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.exfamily.org/the-family/judgement-lord-justice-ward-intro.shtml |title=The Judgement of Lord Justice Ward, 1995 |website=Ex-Family.org |access-date=2016-08-13 |archive-date=March 6, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306192028/http://www.exfamily.org/the-family/judgement-lord-justice-ward-intro.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref> He found that by 1995 TF had abandoned these practices and concluded that they were a safe environment for children. Nevertheless, he did require that the group cease all corporal punishment of children in the United Kingdom and denounce any of Berg's writings that were "responsible for children in TF having been subjected to sexually inappropriate behaviour".<ref>{{Cite web|title=Judgement of Lord Justice Ward|url=http://www.exfamily.org/art/misc/justward.htm|access-date=2020-11-24|website=www.exfamily.org|archive-date=October 25, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211025070541/http://www.exfamily.org/art/misc/justward.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>