Your Questions Answered We wrote in our post “Unified Family Court?” here about changes to the Family Court and where family proceedings were going to be dealt with from the start of the year. The changes are being implemented, and the Court Service has...Read MoreTags: divorce, family law, fixed fee, legal advice, paradigm family law, york, family
Spend, Spend, Spend it? The recent death of Pools winner Viv Nicholson prompted us to consider how the family court deals with a windfall such as a lottery win in the context of a divorce. Whilst the chances of such a win happening in the first place are pretty slim,...Read MoreTags: marriage, divorce, family law, fixed fee, legal advice, paradigm family law, york, family
Our survey says…… The recent high profile decision in Wyatt v Vince (where the Supreme Court stated that only in cases where the court has already determined the financial claim or where the case is not legally recognised because the claimant has remarried...Read MoreTags: marriage, survey, divorce, family law, fixed fee, legal advice, paradigm family law, york, family
Wyatt v Vince [2015] UKSC 15 The Supreme Court handed down today the landmark judgment in Wyatt v Vince and gave now guidance in previously unfamiliar territory in financial remedy proceedings. Background The parties married in 1981 and separated in 1984. The parties...Read MoreTags: divorce, family law, fixed fee, legal advice, paradigm family law, york, family
Top 10 Wedding Wonders With the recent world record wedding at Rudding Park between Amy Ewing and Alex Simmons it got us thinking at Paradigm Family Law what other romantic world records are out there. What an amorous world we live in, testament to which is the...Read MoreTags: paradigm family law, york, family, marriage, international, prenuptial agreement, wedding
