Article parent: family-law
-
News & Insights
The risks of negotiating a divorce settlement directly with your sp...
This week a case has made headlines which showcases the risks of negotiating a divorce settlement directly with your spouse, referred to ...
-
News & Insights
Spousal Maintenance and Capitalisation
Table of Contents What is spousal maintenance? Question: I am getting a divorce and want to avoid spousal maintenance. Can I get a Clean ...
-
News & Insights
Making the most out of meeting your solicitor
Family Solicitor, Shakira Johnson, talks about what clients can expect from meeting with a solicitor and how to make the most of these co...
-
News & Insights
COHABITATION Q&A – WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT YOUR RIGHTS WHEN...
Family law Partner, Deborah Prance, answers your questions around cohabiting and your rights if a relationship breaks down: “I have been ...
-
News & Insights
Divorce Delays… What’s the alternative?
With the family courts continuing to experience significant backlogs and a greater number of clients recognising the benefits of avoiding...
-
News & Insights
Big changes for separating couples – No fault divorce is coming
The Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020 (“DDSA 2020”) brings about the biggest reform of divorce law in 50 years and is the resu...
-
News & Insights
Frequently asked questions on separation and divorce during the pan...
Pressures of the pandemic have put additional stresses and strains on families and relationships have become particularly challenged. Our...
-
News & Insights
Occupation Order: Can It Help Resolve a Difficult Living Situation?
If you find the living arrangements with your spouse or partner unbearable, and are concerned about your wellbeing or the wellbeing of an...
-
News & Insights
How Do I Help My Grown-up Children with Their Divorce?
Watching anybody going through a divorce is not for the fainthearted, and when it’s your own offspring it’s hard just to stand by and do ...
-
News & Insights
Alternatives to Court for Relationship Breakdowns
Along with many other public services during these worrying times, courts are struggling to deal with cases before them. Weekly guidance ...
-
News & Insights
Child Maintenance and Changing Financial Circumstance
Maintenance is always variable. & of course, it should be – our incomes and other financial circumstances are not carved in stone whe...
-
News & Insights
The Legal Implications of Relocating with Children after Divorce or...
Following divorce and relationship breakdown, many clients ask us this: Can I take the children of the family and move home, either in th...
-
News & Insights
Can I get a divorce during lockdown?
Taking the first step towards divorce can be daunting in normal circumstances, and with the additional pressure of the government-imposed...
-
News & Insights
Domestic Abuse & Covid-19: What help is available?
In these locked down days, divorce solicitors and domestic abuse charities have reported a huge increase in cries for help from people af...
-
News & Insights
Family Court Hearings & Coronavirus
Our family law team look into family court hearings and how they are adapting to the current coronavirus guidelines, outlining the protoc...
-
News & Insights
How to fund your divorce
When a relationship breaks down there are many tough decisions that need to be made about you, your family, your home and your finances. ...