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When a 43-year-old Spanish-born man and his wife divorced 15 years after their marriage in Spain, having lived in England since 2004 and raised two children (now 12 and 10)...
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When a local authority could see that an elderly woman had been browbeaten into going into a care home against her will, it considered that she had not given a...
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Helpful guidance on the calculation of periodical payments (popularly known as maintenance payments) in a divorce settlement has been provided by a High Court judge in a recent case. ...
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The Court of Appeal recently ruled in a case which asked whether fatherhood is sufficient to warrant contact with a child and decided that the answer is ‘no’. The...
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Religion has been the cause of countless disputes over the centuries, but surprisingly few disputes regarding religion have reached the family courts. Recently, the High Court heard a case...
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The Court of Appeal has recently heard the first substantial appeal concerning a claim for ancillary financial relief (a financial settlement on the break-up of a marriage or civil partnership)...
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