Father’s Day : How To Get Through It Without Your Children – 7 top tips by Wendi Schuller Father’s Day may fall during the shared time period when the children are with their mother. Ideally, she would let you have the youngsters on your special day, but this is...Read MoreTags: children, guest blog, wendi schuller, guest post, fathers day
The Interaction between Hague Convention cases and Asylum Law in England The Supreme Court (Lord Lloyd-Jone Lord Hamblen, Lord Leggatt, Lord Burrow Lord Stephens) in G (Appellant) v G (Respondent) [2021] UKSC 9 ( on appeal from: [2020] EWCA Civ 1185 ) decided about...Read MoreTags: child abduction, Hague Convention, asylum
Fixed Fees are the Future The recently reported case of TT v CDA (Rev1) 2020 EWCA Civ 1215 has again brought the issue of costs in divorce proceedings into the spotlight. Are fixed fees coming? Having given a comprehensive review of the case law in the area of...Read MoreTags: fixed fee, litigation conduct, fixed fees
Divorce and Taxes – What to look out for As Albert Einstein said: “The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax”. In Divorce cases the main concern is the treatment of tax issues and potential future tax liabilities. In G v G (Financial...Read MoreTags: tax, capital gains tax, cgt, income tax, sdlt, tax year
Matrimonial Assets – Is Sharing sometimes harder to do than Giving? In recent years the law in respect of non-matrimonial and matrimonial issues in financial remedy proceedings is often challenged in financial cases. The 8 point overview below will shine some...Read MoreTags: McFarlane, matrimonial assets, miller, sharing, white v white
Setting Priorities During Divorce – A Guest Post by Wendi Schuller Divorce is a time when one can be scattered. Too many things bombarding us at once. Too many decisions requiring immediate attention. You may feel like you are on a roller coaster speeding along...Read MoreTags: guest blog, wendi schuller, guest post, priorities, squirrel