Read our Family Law blog posts from the Taylor&Emmet family law team.
Forced marriage is not a problem that is specific to one country or culture. According to statistics, countries known for high levels of forced marriages include Pakistan; Bangladesh; India; Somalia; Afghanistan; and Saudi Arabia. However in 2016, 11% of cases that were dealt with by the Forced Marriage Unit were Read more…
Domestic Abuse in Russia and the US: International Women’s Day International Women’s Day is celebrated on 8th March each year. It is a commemoration of the women’s rights movement and has a long history. The first Women’s Day observance was held in New York in 1909; in 1917 March 8th Read more…
On Valentine’s day the Court of Appeal started hearing a very unusual case as a Judge in the lower court refused to allow a wife’s unreasonable behaviour divorce petition to proceed. After a long marriage Mrs Tini Owens commenced divorce proceedings based on what she viewed as her husband Hugh’s unreasonable Read more…
Both parents of a child have equal rights and responsibilities provided that they have Parental Responsibility for that child pursuant to Section 2 of the Children Act 1989.There is a misconception that a mother automatically has more rights than a father because she gave birth to the child. When a Read more…
I remember preparing a Divorce Petition for a new client and starting to feel sad for the client. Not because their marriage has broken down. Not because they were faced with the prospect of trying to reach an agreement with their now ex-husband about arrangements for their children and long term Read more…
Recent headlines do not look good for ex-husbands. This month another Court of Appeal decision has ordered that maintenance payments for a wife should be increased 15 years after the divorce. In the case of Graham and Maria Mills, a financial settlement was ordered at the time of the divorce Read more…
Since the Supreme Court decision in the case of Wyatt v Vince in 2015, the law is clear in that delay is no bar to seeking a financial settlement arising out of divorce. On 25th January 2017 the Court of Appeal dismissed a husband’s appeal against a financial settlement giving Read more…
Last week a senior family court judge, Mr Justice Cobb, proposed changes to the way the family courts deal with allegations of domestic abuse in disputes over arrangements for children. The announcement comes one year after the Women’s Aid report entitled ‘Nineteen Child Homicides’ was published alongside the launch of Read more…
Earlier this month an article in The Guardian looked at one consequence of the cuts to legal aid – that perpetrators of domestic abuse are being given the opportunity to cross examine their ex-partners in court. This however only makes up a very small part of the bigger picture on Read more…
When couples separate, there are a number of ways to reach an agreement about children and/or financial issues. We have come a long way from the notion that involving solicitors will aggravate an already difficult situation. Our role is to advise on the quickest and cheapest way to facilitate a Read more…