Family

• Hard Work Not Enough for Share of Home

  • Posted15 April 2015

  A woman who sued her ex-partner for a half share of his £500,000 home – on the basis that she and members of her family had put two years of...

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• Cohabitation Rights Bill Receives Second Reading

  • Posted2 April 2015

  There have been hundreds of legal disputes relating to the division of property built up during a period of cohabitation by couples who are not married. The arguments arise...

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• Allegations Cut No Ice in Court

  • Posted16 March 2015

  A ‘spiteful and wicked’ husband, who branded his wife a psychopath in the midst of their £5.6 million divorce, has been hit hard in the pocket after a judge condemned...

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• Career Lost Demands More Equal Treatment in Divorce

  • Posted2 March 2015

  Big money divorce cases get into the news for a whole variety of reasons, but an allegation of sex discrimination is seldom one of them. However, this was one...

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• Passage of Time Bars Application for Financial Support

  • Posted13 February 2015

  It is not uncommon for a couple’s financial circumstances to change a great deal after they divorce, and in such circumstances it will often happen that the poorer ex-spouse will...

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• Separated But Not Divorced? Your Estate May Pass to Your Ex

  • Posted26 January 2015

  Readers who live apart from their spouses or civil partners, but who have not formally dissolved their relationships, are warned that following changes to inheritance law brought into effect in...

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