Family

• High Court Decision Underlines the Finality of Divorce Arbitration Awards

  • Posted12 April 2019

  Divorcing couples can sometimes achieve savings of both time and money by opting for arbitration, rather than court proceedings, as a means of resolving any financial disputes. However, as a...

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• Sharing Principle – Court of Appeal Gives Guidance

  • Posted3 April 2019

  The application of the ‘sharing principle’ to big money divorces is more than a matter of simple mathematics, and what family judges aim to achieve is a broadly fair outcome...

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• Commercial Surrogacies Abroad Are Not Illegal – Court of Appeal Ruling

  • Posted15 March 2019

  Although commercial surrogacy businesses have long been banned in the UK, the Court of Appeal recently ruled that a clinical negligence victim would not be breaking the law were she...

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• Procedural Unfairness Stops Council Care Action

  • Posted26 February 2019

  When the mother of a teenage daughter who had been taken into care in 2016 with her agreement had another child, the local council’s social services department became involved. The...

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• UK Fairness Test Mitigates Italian Pre-Nuptial Agreement

  • Posted12 February 2019

  The law relating to the division of family assets on divorce varies widely across the world and the UK is generally regarded as one of the fairer jurisdictions for such...

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• Misled Mother to Lose Home

  • Posted23 January 2019

  It may sound overcautious to say so, but it is always worth taking legal advice before entering into any significant arrangement, even when it is with a trusted member of...

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