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I would like to introduce you to Emmet the Dog. Emmet is the newest member of Taylor & Emmet’s Family Law and Family Mediation team. Emmet is here to remind us how important it is to remember the children in the cases that we deal with. In fact not only Read more…
Every Family Lawyer knows the feeling well. Telling the lovely client sitting opposite you that they have no claim against pension funds nor income of their long term partner following a recent split. Both of which they have managed to achieve in part because your client stayed home to look Read more…
The first same sex marriage ceremonies took place on Saturday 29th March amid a great deal of media attention. From a legal perspective not much has changed. We have been advising on pre-civil partnership agreements since the Civil Partnership Act came into force in 2005; the only difference for same Read more…
The government is giving consideration to creating a new criminal offence to prosecute those who cause deliberate emotional harm to children. It seems they have gathered evidence to show that some parents go out of their way to cause psychological suffering to their children. On the same day we hear Read more…
This Sunday is Mother’s Day. This is a plea to all separated couples to remember that, however badly their relationship with the mother or father of their child has broken down, it is important to remember them on Mother’s and Father’s Day. That person may have stopped being the love Read more…
In today’s news we hear that the police are failing the victims of domestic violence by not taking them seriously, not investigating their circumstances or gathering proper evidence on which they can prosecute and that the Home Secretary is so concerned about it that she is going to take personal Read more…
So Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow are to separate. I hope for their sakes that we all resist the urge to rush to the gossip columns and try and find out why they have separated who has done what, who is going to get what and so on. Instead I Read more…
“1 in 10 children suffer some form of neglect”. That’s the awful statistic I heard on breakfast TV this morning. It seems hard to believe and I guess it covers the smallest oversight to the most horrific child abuse cases we all sometimes have the misfortune to hear about. Then Read more…
I met Pat Lennon in 1990, when I was a trainee and she was head of the family team. We have worked together ever since. Pat retires at the end of this month and I find myself reminiscing daily about the times we have spent together and the huge changes Read more…