It’s Payback Time It sounds like a perfectly reasonable idea, taking money from criminal’s ill-gotten gain recovering their proceeds of crime. Under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA) provisions were enacted to make this possible. Criminal Funds Under POCA,...Read MoreTags: divorce, family law, enforcement, conduct, s.25 matrimonial causes act, matrimonial home, POCA, proceeds of crime
Can I Change my Mind? With all the debate over whether the European Treaty change commitments signed by all member states of the European Union are binding or not upon the European Court of Justice, at Paradigm Family Law we thought we’d take a look at the position...Read MoreTags: prenuptial agreement, consent order, financial proceedings, postnuptial, agreement
Love is in the Air Valentine’s Day is upon us and love is in the air, well for most. On a day when everyone seems to be giving and receiving cards filled with love, chocolate flowers and gift what do you do when instead you have divorce papers thrust in your face over...Read MoreTags: divorce, fixed fee, legal advice, paradigm family law, mediation, financial proceedings, valentines day
“I have, therefore I am” In the past 50 years the consumption of luxury goods has moved geographically from Europe to the USA (1970s) to Japan (1980s) to Russia (1990s) and is now spreading across Greater China. Extremely popular investments were found in...Read MoreTags: divorce, legal advice, paradigm family law, separated, lifestyle
Pension Offsetting on Divorce Pension offsetting in divorce cases is a hot topic, and not one which is capable of a straightforward answer. We touched on it in our blog post here, but most recently the case of WS v WS [2015] EWHC 3941 (Fam) has given a clear(er)...Read MoreTags: divorce, pension, financial proceedings, duxbury, pension offsetting
Introduction This article is a general overview about the debate around new paradigm concept of fixed fees in Financial Remedy Cases[1]. High Court Judge Mostyn says in his famous judgement in J v J [2] that ‘something must be done’. Indeed, his starting point was the...Read MoreTags: divorce, family law, fixed fee, paradigm family law, financial, financial proceedings
Divorce trends Our Managing Partner recently appeared on BBC Radio Leeds discussing divorce trends and statistics with Martin Kelner. The topics were wide ranging, and had been prompted by Martin having read an article in The Telegraph that morning which said that 12%...Read MoreTags: divorce, legal advice, paradigm family law, survey
Investing in your child’s future happiness With all the talk of D-Day, Divorce Day and not to mention the blog articles and press releases flying around this month, at Paradigm Family Law we thought we’d look at things from a different angle. Worried Parents We see...Read MoreTags: divorce, paradigm family law, prenuptial agreement, wedding, inheritance, postnuptial, due diligence, parents
A I Legal Awards 2015 We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded ‘Best Specialist Family Law Firm UK 2015’ by Acquisition International. The awards are given to commend outstanding work throughout the legal world over the past 12 month...Read MoreTags: family law, paradigm family law, york, international, awards, fixed fees
Luke and Leia – A New Hope The daughter of Jedi Knight, Anakin Skywalker and Senator Padmé Amidala of Naboo, Leia was the younger twin sister of Luke Skywalker, and, shortly after her birth, she became the adopted daughter of Bail Organa and Queen Breha of Alderaan,...Read MoreTags: family law, children, declaration of parentage, embryology, siblings, star wars
