Divorce potentially puts your entire life in the balance. Suddenly, almost everything about your life could change. And from a material perspective perhaps the biggest thing of all is where you will live. What might happen to your home, and where you will live after the...
For most people getting divorced their biggest concern will be what share of the matrimonial assets they receive. And as with so many things, there are a lot of misconceptions about how the law divides assets on divorce. One misconception is that everything is always divided...
When parents separate they obviously have to make arrangements as to how much time their children spend with each of them. Hopefully, they will be able to agree arrangements, but in order to do so they need to know how the law approaches the matter. Parents...
A recent survey by the Marriage Foundation, a charity that promotes marriage, indicated that up to one in five couples enter into a prenuptial agreement (commonly abbreviated to ‘prenup’), before they get married. The statistic has been disputed by family lawyers, who consider that it is very...
It is sadly common that allegations of domestic abuse are raised by one or both of the parties in proceedings between parents over arrangements for their children. Perhaps the most common scenario is where the children live with their mother, their father is applying to...
Domestic abuse charity launches tech safety website Refuge, the domestic abuse charity, has launched anew website, RefugeTechSafety.org, with dedicated resources for survivors, after seeing an increase in the number of referrals of complex cases of tech abuse. Refuge says that between April 2020 and May 2021, it saw on average a 97% increase...
Research looks at fathers in the family justice system A research partnership between the University of East Anglia and Lancaster University has provided new evidence about fathers’ involvement in care and recurrent care proceedings in England. The researchers analysed anonymised family court records for more than 73,000...
The importance of finalising agreements A Family Court case has demonstrated the importance of couples legally finalising financial agreements reached between them on separation or divorce. In the case, the couple agreed on a division of their assets in 2012, but the agreement was never legally finalised,...
Mediation is used by many separating couples as a means of resolving disputes over arrangements for children or finances. To assist the process of mediation the couples are encouraged to speak freely and, in particular, to put forward proposals aimed at settling the dispute. But this...
Wife does not have to pay rent Occupation of the former matrimonial home....