Following on from the 2016 report on enforcement of financial orders by the Law Commission, the Justice Minister Lucy Frazer has written to the Commission, setting out the Government’s plans to improve the situation. The current plans include rationalising the …
Read moreSupreme Court, 18 July 2018, Lady Hale P, Lord Wilson, Lord Carnwath, Lord Hughes, Lord Hodge The husband and wife married in 1987, separated in 2000 and divorced in 2002. During the marriage the wife had worked as a qualified …
Read moreThe husband and wife married in 1978 and separated in 2015; they had two adult children. The wife had sent the husband a draft divorce petition in December 2012, but this had not been pursued. The wife was having an …
Read moreReports on pensions on divorce and use of valuation and experts The Pensions Advisory Group has published two reports on the legal issues of pensions on divorce and valuation and experts in such cases. They are asking for responses from …
Read moreNew Forms A – fast track procedure Form A and Form A1 have been revised as a result of amendments to Part 9 of the Family Procedure Rules 2010, to provide for financial remedy applications to be dealt with through …
Read moreLegal advice for both clients As mediators we are sometimes asked for this by clients – and now, apparently, it is available. Two family law barristers have set up what is believed to be the first service allowing separating couples …
Read moreRound up of recent research – Seventh Family Justice Bulletin The Ministry of Justice has published its seventh bulletin, reviewing and providing links to recent research into family justice issues (the last bulletin was published in December 2015, so this …
Read moreDigital Family Law Service being developed Earlier this month, Her Majesty’s Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) started enabling people to issue divorce petitions online, which has apparently reduced to nearly zero the number of errors that previously led to so …
Read moreParental Alienation – review of research and case law. Cafcass Cymru (the Welsh arm of Cafcass) has commissioned and published a study into parental alienation, written by a team in Cascade, the Children’s Social Care Research and Development Centre at …
Read moreRe M-A (A Child) [2018] EWCA Civ 896 Court of Appeal, 25 April 2018, Hamblen and Peter Jackson LJJ The British mother and the American father had a very brief relationship, as a result of which the child was born …
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