Following the parents’ separation, the child lived with the mother and maternal grandmother. The father lived with a new partner in Northern Ireland. From 2013 onwards, the child was the subject of litigation in the Family Court, on the mother’s …
Read moreWG v HG [2018] EWFC 84 Family Court, 30 July 2018, Francis J The couple met in 2004, shortly after the husband’s first marriage had come to an end, when the wife was employed as a nanny for the husband’s …
Read moreUS v SR [2018] EWHC 3297 (Fam) Family Division, 29 November 2018, Roberts J During the marriage, the husband worked in the oil and gas industry, earning a substantial income. At the time of the separation, in 2010, there were …
Read moreChild Support Agency – information for parents owed historical debt The Department for Work and Pensions has published guidance for parents owed historical debt under the Child Support Agency system. The DWP is going to write to both parents where …
Read moreOnline Divorces More than 23,000 applications for divorce have been made online since the service was launched last April. That apparently includes 455 applications filed between 24 December and 1 January – with 13 submitted on Christmas Day itself. Very …
Read moreCivil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration Etc) Bill The Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration Etc) Bill, sponsored by Tim Loughton and Baroness Hodgson of Abinger, is due to receive its second reading in the House of Lords on 18 …
Read moreSir Andrew McFarlane has been appointed President of the Family Division, following the retirement of Sir James Munby. Sir Andrew co-wrote the highly respected legal textbook Children Law and Practice, was the only legal member of the Norgrove Family Justice …
Read moreThe draft guidance to Cafcass Practice issued by Cafcass in July 2017 has been revised following concessions made by Cafcass in the course of judicial review proceedings brought by Nagalro (the Professional Association for Children’s Guardians, Family Court Advisers and …
Read moreThe House of Commons library has produced a briefing paper which sets out the changes to child maintenance enforcement proposed in July 2018 and (except for the welfare benefits change) due to be implemented in the autumn of 2018.. The …
Read moreFollowing 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 …
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