Football Widows – Don’t get left on the Touchline It’s a well-known fact that every 4 year around this time (OK, so perhaps not always in winter) millions of people are glued to their television screens for hour sometimes days on end to watch their home...Read MoreTags: fifa, wags, football, football widow, footballers wives, world cup, qatar, qatar 2022
No Fault Divorce – D Day This year, D Day has moved. Traditionally D Day has been seen as the first Monday in the year – the time when couples who have spent the Christmas and New Year period together when perhaps the cracks have started to show, have...Read MoreTags: d day, no fault divorce, divorce dissolution and separation act 2020
Divorce Loans – Which do you take, the Hard or Soft option? In this post, we explore the way in which the family court is likely to treat certain divorce loans within a dispute about matrimonial assets. Are they ‘hard’ or ‘soft’? It comes...Read MoreTags: Paul Read, divorce funding, divorce loan, hard loan, HHJ Hess, soft loan
Can You Be Friends With Your Ex? by Wendi Schuller Does divorce end a relationship between a couple? Not necessarily – it can be a shift instead. This depends upon the circumstances of the divorce. As a school nurse, I spoke with parents who were on great terms with...Read MoreTags: wendi schuller, guest post, friends
Remote Hearings – Are they the future in Family Courts and should they continue? The Nuffield Family Justice Observatory (NFJO) has published a report called: Remote hearings in the family court post pandemic. They received from over 3,200 professionals and parents...Read MoreTags: covid, pandemic, nuffield, nuffield family justice report, remote hearing, remote hearings
International enforcement of incoming & outgoing orders (before / after 18th June 2011) The Court of Appeal recently confirmed in Des Pallieres v Des Pallieres [2021] EWCA Civ 955 that the enforcement of financial provisions of a French order through the English...Read MoreTags: des pallieres, international enforcement, london
