I suspect you will have read elsewhere about this case. It clarifies the court’s approach to how the sharing principle applies, particularly in relation to assets transferred between spouses during marriage and when non-matrimonial assets can become matrimonialised. The husband is now aged 72 and the wife is 57. They Read more…
Just over 103,000 partnerships were dissolved in 2023. 99 per cent were divorces; the rest were civil partnerships. These are similar numbers before the Covid pandemic. Divorce rates per 1,000 married individuals were nearly the same for both men and women. Same-sex civil partnership dissolution rates were 7.4 for men Read more…
There are 28.6 million households: 67% contain one family and 30% are a single person living alone. More people live alone than ten years ago and a larger proportion of them were aged 65 years or over. One third of men aged between 20 and 34 years live with their Read more…