Read our Family Law blog posts from the Taylor&Emmet family law team.
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…
Sheffield and District Law Society, which represents solicitors in Sheffield and South Yorkshire, has sent out over 60 emails to candidates in the area to ask their views on two specific areas: changes to legal aid and recent increases in court fees. As of 29th April 2015 they had received Read more…
The deputy president of the Supreme Court, Baroness Hale, reiterated her call for divorce law to be reformed in an article in the Times on 9th April 2015. Her comments came 20 years after she first proposed reform of the current law when she was a member of the Law 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…
A man has won damages of £39,000 from his ex wife for being led into believing a child conceived through IVF was his. In an unprecedented decision made on 20th March the Judge at the Central London County Court ordered the ex wife to pay compensation for the “distress and Read more…
The case of the “Cowshed Cinderella” was widely reported in the media following a final decision of Cardiff High Court on 25th February 2015. The media interest sadly arose because it involved a dispute between parents and their daughter. The parents, Tegywn and Mary Davies, own a dairy farm in Read more…
On 11th March judgement was handed down in the Supreme Court in a financial case arising out of a divorce which was made final in 1992. Most people, quite understandably, believe that once a divorce is finalised – when Decree Absolute is granted – that is the end of the Read more…
The Resolution Manifesto for change in the family justice system covers 6 key areas. We will now look in more detail at the proposals. Protect vulnerable people going through separation This proposal relates to two issues: the availability of some initial advice for people going through a separation and changes Read more…
On 23rd February 2015 Resolution, formerly the Solicitors’ Family Law Association, launched a Manifesto for family law. The aim of the Manifesto is to put pressure on the Government to make changes in six areas of the family justice system. Resolution was established as the Solicitors’ Family Law Association in Read more…