Article parent: family-law
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Short marriages and dividing assets – the impact of Sharp v S...
England and Wales has for better or for worse developed a reputation of being the “divorce capital of the world”. Not due to the number o...
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Pet custody on divorce
Internationally family courts are tackling the debate on whether pets are property or family. This is a difficult issue that pet owners h...
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Pre-nuptial agreements: what is “fair”?
Supreme Court Justice Lord Wilson has recently expressed his views on spousal maintenance and his support for binding pre-nuptial agreeme...
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Unhappiness not enough to get a divorce
The Court of Appeal on Friday 24 March 2017 handed down the judgment on the case of Tini Owens v Hugh Owens. Mr. and Mrs. Owen married in...
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Child maintenance and your options
The amount of uncollected child maintenance in Britain now exceeds £3.8 billion, the BBC has claimed. The figure, highlighted on The Vic...
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Mills and Mills: A second chance? The risks of long term spousal ma...
The recent Court of Appeal judgment in the case of Mr & Mrs Mills highlights the financial ties that ongoing spousal maintenance (inc...
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One third of couples would hide assets on divorce
There is often a temptation for divorcing parties to think about hiding assets from their spouse. A YouGov survey of 2,000 people publish...
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Do Grandparents have a “right” to contact on family bre...
Did you know it was National Grandparents’ Day last Sunday? The celebration was launched by Age UK back in 1990 but it seems that it pass...
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Brangelina’s brood: Children on divorce or separation
It is all over the news; Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have split. Speculation as to why Angelina chose to initiate divorce proceedings is...
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Successful Parenting after Separation workshop
On the evening of 29th September we were delighted to welcome some of our past and present family law clients to our first “Successful Pa...
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Reality TV: Family mediation on Divorce & Separation: “Call the...
Over the last 3 Tuesday nights BBC2 has been required viewing for anyone involved with family law. The new series “Call the Mediator”, fo...
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Children & Location, Location, Location… not always easy follow...
You’ve made the difficult decision to separate from your partner. You are in the process of attempting to rebuild your new life and, in d...
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Handbags and gladrags – “Needs” on separation and...
You can’t always get what you want… but as the song goes, if you try then you might get what you need. The headline grabbing case of Estr...
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Family mediation – a behind the scenes look coming to a television ...
The new BBC documentary Mr versus Mrs: Call the Mediator will premier this evening on BBC2 at 9.00pm. It’s a behind the scenes look at th...
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Divorce: am I going to be made obsolete by an app?!
‘The divorce app that lets you break up without breaking the bank’. On 2nd June 2016 the Guardian published an article about a new ...
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Travelling Abroad with a child with a different surname? Arm yourse...
As summer approaches many of us are looking forward to some time away in the sun. However, when you have a different surname to that of ...