How to Avoid the Family Courts That might sound like a strange thing for a family law firm to be asking, but our primary objective when acting for our clients is to secure them the best outcomes and in the most cost-effective way. It is why we set up our fixed fee...Read MoreTags: mediation, diy, arbitration, private FDR, ene, collaborative, round table, rtm
Proprietary Estoppel on the Farm In the recent UK Supreme Court case of Guest and another (Appellant) v Guest (Respondent) [2022] UKSC 27 on appeal from [2020] EWCA Civ 387 – 19th October 2022, Lord Briggs, Lady Arden, Lord Leggatt, Lord Stephens, Lady Rose gave...Read MoreTags: proprietary estoppel, farm, farming, appeal, Guest v Guest
If you are going through a divorce, you may understandably be worried about what happens next and what the financial implications are for you going forward. This article will help you understand the issue of spousal maintenance but is no substitute for getting the...Read MoreTags: spousal maintenance, divorce and maintenance
Mediation is growing in popularity for resolving family issues and certainly has many advantages such as being quicker, cheaper, more flexible and a lot less stressful than going to court. How does it work? Mediation is an informal dispute resolution process that aims...Read MoreTags: family law mediation, family law dispute, family resolution
Whether or not a separation is your idea, you should know your rights and understand what the best options are for the division of property. Ideally, you and your ex-partner should agree on how to divide the property between you. Sometimes, however, this is impossible...Read MoreTags: separation, divorce and property, dividing property
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