Government asks Law Commission to review Weddings Law The Law Commission has welcomed the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s announcement that the Government will ask the Law Commission to review the laws concerning weddings in England and Wales. The project will...Read MoreTags: weddings law, McDonalds, scoping paper
Financial Remedies Pilot extended to eight more court centres In his final Presidential Guidance issued on 27th July, Sir James Munby announced that the Financial Remedies Pilot, which is currently confined to the West Midland would soon be extended to eight other...Read MoreTags: financial remedies pilot, york, james munby
The Differences Between Divorce in the U.K. and U.S. By: Summer Masterson-Goethal Masterson Law Those familiar with the differences in British and American culture are familiar with the phrase “two countries separated by a common language.” This applicable...Read MoreTags: USA, America, America Divorce, Divorce in the USA, no fault divorce, Masterson Law, Summer Masterson Goethals
Divorce Jurisdiction Paradigm Family Law successfully represented a client through the International Jurisdiction arena and helped to establish jurisdiction in England & Wales. In this first decision after the Court of Appeal Judgment in Thum v Thum [2018] EWCA...Read MoreTags: thum, jurisdiction, divorce jurisdiction
“Support Gay Marriage” The Supreme Court has handed down its decision in the so called ‘Gay Wedding Cake’ case. The Court has backed the Northern Ireland bakers that refused to bake a cake with the words ‘Support Gay Marriage’ on it...Read MoreTags: gay cake, gay marriage, gay wedding, gay wedding cake, support gay marriage, wedding cake, ashers bakery, baker
Lie More Lies and Statistics? Divorce is in the news again. Two stories on divorce statistics published recently seem to contradict each other when considering the rates of divorce. So are Divorce rates up or down? Mixed Messages Divorce Statistics published in the...Read MoreTags: divorce statistics, statistics, divorce, ONS
How to use Mareva Orders Effectively – or is it a smoking gun? In England the Freezing Injunctions and Mareva Order proceedings have been mentioned in several cases recently and the US$ 500,000,000 Yacht (Luna) enforcement case of a Russian billionaire in his...Read MoreTags: mareva, mareva injunction, mareva order, freezing order, freezing
Consent Orders Filed Online From Monday 6 August 2018 applications for Consent Orders in family court financial proceedings can be filed online, avoiding the need to be delivered to the Court by (snail) mail. This marks another step towards a fully digital online...Read MoreTags: online divorce, consent order, pilot scheme
Why quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side After a long debate in public and calls in July this year that Ministers should support a bill that would bring in the first major changes to the divorce laws in 50 year the Supreme Court in Owens v...Read MoreTags: owens v owens, unreasonable behaviour
Judicial Protocol Sir James Munby, President of the Family Division in England & Wale and Lord Carloway, head of the Scottish judiciary, have agreed a new judicial protocol for children’s cases which will regulate direct judicial communications between...Read MoreTags: james munby, judicial protocol
