Family
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Family Care Payments & Gratuitous Allowance
Family Care Payments (Gratuitous Allowance) If you are a lay deputy who has been appointed by the Court of Protection to manage the fina...
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Divorce: it’s not over until it’s ordered
In England and Wales, a marriage is only legally dissolved by a Decree Absolute being obtained. This is a document produced by the court ...
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Spousal Maintenance – a “meal ticket for life”?
Following a divorce, a spouse may be required to pay their former spouse maintenance, normally on a monthly basis, if they are unable to ...
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Divorce Law: A Change is Gonna Come
A snapshot of some of the recent developments in divorce and marital laws. “No Fault Divorce” to become law in the UK In the UK, divorce ...
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Is there such a thing as a ‘quickie divorce’?
Following the recent announcement that Ant McPartlin (half of TV presenting duo Ant & Dec) and his wife of 11 years are to divorce, t...
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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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A history of Merrony Wall Solicitors
by Anne-Lise Wall The legal partnership of Merrony Wall was formed in 1991, as a niche practice principally offering a specialised servic...
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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...