There were 232,000 marriages and civil partnerships in England and Wales in 2023. That’s an 8% decrease on the previous year. Civil partnerships have increased too according to the Office of National Statistics. Most of these are opposite sex partnerships. Read more…
The Government is proposing a major overhaul of how the law treats the breakdown of all relationships. The consultation will also address financial remedies on divorce. It aims to bring consistency and fairness across marriage, civil partnerships and cohabitation, whilst Read more…
People who are not comfortable talking about money are likely to get into debt. Just one in three of us feels very comfortable discussing our own finances or the finances of a loved one. A third of people also feel Read more…
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 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 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 Read more…
Northern Ireland are looking at possibly changing their divorce laws. The current law requires couples to either go through a lengthy separation before a divorce is granted. Alternatively, proceedings can begin straight away if one person is at fault – Read more…
Divorce slashes women’s household incomes far more than men’s. Wives can expect their income to be halved in the year after ending the relationship, compared with a 30% drop for husbands. One woman complained: “Why would the settlement be a Read more…
The composition of families continues to change over time. The generation of women born in 1951 had 2.04 children; the generation born in 1978 have 1.95 children. The forecast is for the next generation (born in 2007) to have just Read more…
People in the UK have around 20 million small pension pots worth under £10,000 each. These small deferred pension pots have been accumulated as people change employment during their working lives. Many of the pension pots are very small and Read more…