Children are to be put at the centre of court proceedings. Following a successful pilot scheme, new Child Focused Courts will be rolled out across England and Wales. The trial saw cases in the family court resolved up to seven Read more…
When a couple get divorced many assume that the conditional order (the old decree absolute) ends all connections with their former husband or wife. It does not. If you haven’t severed your financial links with a Financial Consent Order then Read more…
Just over 40 per cent of marriages end in divorce. The average length of a marriage is 13 years, long enough to have children and have your finances completely intertwined. So how can you avoid years of legal battles and Read more…
Recently, there has been a rise in Curveball Divorces. This is when one partner is blindsided by the other party’s desire to end, what may appear to be, a great marriage or partnership. This can be particularly acute if the Read more…
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…