A guest post by Valerie Albarda Your wedding day has come and gone. It may have been decades since you spoke the words that bonded you in holy matrimony or perhaps it was just a few years ago. Through it all, you maintained that the love would last, the bond would...Read MoreTags: divorce, family law, legal advice, paradigm family law, york, family, separated, civil partnership, marriage, financial, matrimonial
Death – the ultimate clean break? As matrimonial lawyers we often talk of clean break settlements. Many people use the term, but do they understand what it means in the context of the death of their spouse or civil partner? Not everyone is perhaps aware that...Read MoreTags: cohabitation, financial, inheritance, maintenance, divorce, family law, fixed fee, paradigm family law, york, civil partnership, marriage
All human beings have three lives: public, private and secret Recently an English newspaper reported that a “Banker ‘hacked ex-wife’s computer’ in a bitter £1.2million divorce battle over French villas and luxury watches worth £50,000 and her lawyers...Read MoreTags: york, divorce, family law, fixed fee, legal advice, paradigm family law, marriage, funding, financial, consent order
I have a financial order following divorce, but my ex won’t pay. What next? So, you have been through the divorce, and have a final order from the court for financial relief. The order includes provision for maintenance, transfer of the matrimonial home and a...Read MoreTags: divorce, family law, fixed fee, legal advice, funding, enforcement, financial