This is the sign that greeted motorists driving into Sheffield city centre for three hours between 6-9am yesterday. The sign read: ‘To my cheating husband Paul. You deserve each other. When you get home I won’t be there. ‘Enjoy your drive to work! Lisa. I cannot begin to guess how many Read more…
After a recent High Court decision, the NSPCC has raised concerns about references the judge made about considering allegations of physical abuse in a “cultural context”. The court case was a wardship matter, where the court is asked to make a child a “ward of court”, in itself not a Read more…
The office for National statistics reports that 9% of people aged over 65 were divorced in 2011 which is double the number divorced in 2001. They warn that divorce in later years is especially damaging because “relationships are particularly important for older people as they are more likely to have Read more…
The Supreme Court is in the second day of hearing cases brought by Alison Sharland and Varsha Gohil in which the court has to decide whether lying to a court in divorce proceedings about your financial circumstances, should automatically result in any financial settlement reached being reopened. It may come Read more…
A new study carried out by the University of Warwick concludes “There is no evidence that family courts in England and Wales are discriminating against fathers because of gender bias” and “…that contact applications by fathers were in fact ‘overwhelmingly successful’ ” If you read the summary on the above link, it contains lots of Read more…
As divorce lawyers we always advise our clients with confidence that the final financial settlement that they have incorporated into a Court Order is exactly that i.e. final. We always have to add that there is some small print however that the chances of their Order being anything other than Read more…
Old Mutual Wealth has highlighted a potential, unintended consequence of the recent changes to Pension rules. Around 20 years ago Pension Earmarking was introduced into our divorce laws. This gave the courts the power to order that a divorcee would receive a fixed percentage share of their ex spouse’s pension Read more…
Jeremy Clarkson is being reported as having told Piers Morgan that his “difficult divorce” from his wife of 21 years Frances has been one of a number of events in his life that have caused him, in the eyes of this objective onlooker, to spiral out of control. Other events Read more…
Many people may be thinking over the consequences of the House of Commons’ decision this week about IVF. Approval has been given to extend IVF procedures to the creation of embryos using not just a father’s sperm and a mother’s egg but DNA from the cells of a second female. Read more…
Section 11 of the Children and Families Act 2014 will come into force today, the 22nd October. This section introduces the presumption of parental involvement. It amends the Children Act 1989 by requiring a Court to now presume, unless the contrary is shown, that ‘involvement’ of the parent in the Read more…