Family & Divorce
Fathers’ Rights on Divorce
The Queen’s Speech given on 9 May 2012 said: “Ministers intend to strengthen the law to ensure children have a relationship with both their parents after family separation, where that is safe, and in...
Marriage is a Lottery?
What if you were to come into a substantial amount of money for example winning the lottery or inheriting from a loved one after you had separated? Would you expect to keep it all...
Child Contact
Children’s rights to see both parents after separation are often in the spotlight. Tim Loughton, Children’s Minister, asked for the law regarding child contact to be reviewed and has stated that there is a...
Recession blamed for rise in divorce rate
On 8 December 2011 the Office of National Statistics published a report setting out the divorce statistics for 2010. For the first time since 2003 the number of divorces in England and Wales rose....
Supreme Court Judgement on Cohabitants
The Supreme Court has recently been considering the issue of the division of a family home when a cohabiting couple separates in the case of Jones –v-Kernott. For many years family lawyers have been...
