Family

• Sensible Divorcees Put Personal Animosity Aside – Court of Appeal Ruling

  • Posted15 April 2021

  Any good lawyer will tell you that it is far better for divorcing couples to agree how their assets should be divided, rather than fighting it out in court. A...

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• Interim Maintenance in Divorce Proceedings – Court of Appeal Gives Guidance

  • Posted31 March 2021

  Working out the financial consequences of divorce takes time and that is why judges have the power to make interim maintenance awards to bridge the gap. In an important ruling,...

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• Child Abduction – Runaway Mother Feels the Force of International Law

  • Posted15 March 2021

  Cross-border child abduction is an all too frequent result of broken relationships but it is also unspeakably cruel and English judges take their international treaty obligations to stamp it out...

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• Transatlantic Child Maintenance Storm Breaks Over One-Day-Old Baby

  • Posted1 March 2021

  Some relationships sadly do not survive the prospect of impending parenthood and that can result in children being born into the teeth of a legal storm. In one case, a...

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• Given a Raw Deal by a Divorce Judge? Don’t Just Sit on Your Hands

  • Posted18 February 2021

  Many divorcees feel that judges have given them a raw deal when dividing up marital assets. They may or may not be right about that but, as one case strikingly...

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• COVID-19 – Troubled Mother Permitted Skin-to-Skin Contact with Her Baby

  • Posted2 February 2021

  Contact arrangements between children in care and their parents often raise vexed issues, but all the more so during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a case concerning a mother who was...

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