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Children may not have the capacity to make important decisions for themselves, but that does not mean that family judges ignore their wishes and feelings. In a highly unusual case...
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Before deciding where a child’s best interests lie, family judges often have to conduct detailed inquiries into the character and conduct of their parents. In a unique case on point,...
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The question of who is to blame for the breakdown of a marriage is often uppermost in divorcees’ minds, but it is hardly ever relevant when it comes to fairly...
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Many families have one foot in the UK and another abroad and that can give rise to parental disagreement as to where their children should live. Wherever in the world...
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Can the economic havoc wreaked by the COVID-19 pandemic justify the re-drawing of final financial orders made following a divorce? The High Court has ruled in a guideline case that...
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The advent of so-called ‘no fault’ divorce is on the horizon but, until then, a great many divorce petitions will continue to be issued on the basis of unreasonable behaviour...
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