Sharp v Sharp [2017] EWCA Civ 408 Court of Appeal, 13 June 2017, McFarlane, McCombe and David Richards LJJ The wife was a trader in the wholesale fuel trade. The husband was employed for many years by an international company …
Read moreThe President and the Chief Executive of HMCTS have published a letter explaining that divorce and financial remedy applications are going to be ‘delinked’ from next week, following a successful pilot in Southampton. “In our letter dated 27th April 2017 …
Read moreAccording to the Solicitors Journal, since the Court of Appeal decision in Owens v Owens (summarised in the last newsletter) family lawyers have started to see far more acrimonious allegations in unreasonable behaviour petitions. The lawyers who commented suggested that …
Read moreHow do I Fulfil the Training and Development Requirements of the FMC and my Member Organisation(s)? – A Personal View by Neil Robinson as at June 2017 Firstly, I don’t think this is the right question. A better question might be …
Read moreFamily Court, 3 May 2017, Mostyn J Following the parents’ separation there was almost continuous litigation between them about the child. An order was made in May 2005 requiring the father to settle £220,000 on the child to provide him …
Read moreCourt of Appeal, 11 April 2017, Sir Terence Etherton, Master of the Rolls, King and Moylan LJJ The husband and wife had both been born in the USA. Their relationship began in 1992 and lasted for about 20 years; they …
Read moreThe Swedish mother and the American father (whose family was of Swedish origin) had a child together in 2014. The relationship between them was short lived; after the separation the couple began acrimonious legal proceedings concerning the child. The child …
Read moreDr Gloria Moroni from the Department of Economics and Related Studies at the University of York has just published an analysis of 19,000 UK children born in 2000 to see how divorce impacts on children’s behaviour. As has been seen …
Read moreJoanna Toch, a barrister at Church Court Chambers in London, has obtained financing for a new version of the online service FLC (Family Law Café). FLC was originally a service in which barristers triaged a client’s requirements and connected them …
Read moreHMCTS is looking at how to improve financial applications related to divorce, and believes that the process can and should be improved. Currently, if a contested financial application is made, the whole divorce proceedings are transferred to a local court …
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