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. Sometime however, this is impossible...Read MoreTags: dividing property, divorce and property, separation
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
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
