In this post, Head of International Family Law at Paradigm Family Law, Frank Arndt discusses jurisdictional issues – a topic that is generating a great deal of interest at the moment: I recently wrote a post about Art 15 BIIR and the importance of...Read MoreTags: divorce, family law, fixed fee, legal advice, paradigm family law, york, family, children, contact, international, jurisdiction
What’s the recipe for success? In his recent decision in JL v SL (no.2) [2014] EWHC 360 Fam, Mostyn J sets out the considerations that apply when dividing assets that are matrimonial or non matrimonial. Here, the wife had challenged the first instance decision...Read MoreTags: inheritance, divorce, family law, fixed fee, legal advice, paradigm family law, york, family, marriage, maintenance, 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
Vary, revoke or appeal In the recently decided case of CS v ACS & Anor [2015] EWHC 1005 (Fam) the President of the Family Division, Munby J has rectified an area of the law that was causing difficulties for anyone seeking to vary a consent order. It concerns a...Read MoreTags: divorce, family law, fixed fee, legal advice, paradigm family law, york, consent order