Our family law experts are welcoming news that local couples will be able to divorce without assigning blame from April 6 next year. The announcement was made in parliament yesterday and will bring to an end a long-running campaign to update UK divorce laws so they reflect modern families. Michaela Read more…
Friday’s big announcement that the government is to overhaul our divorce laws was music to the ears of family solicitors like me. Finally, we have taken a giant leap towards removing blame from the legal process and we might eventually see couples separating more quickly and with less acrimony. The Read more…
It’s inevitable that divorce will feel like the end of something, but the way you divorce can help you see a way forward and feel instead that you are approaching the start of something new. It can be hard to see, when wounds are still raw and everything feels uncertain, Read more…
It is said that bad divorces never end; the conflict goes on forever and can affect families and friends – not to mention the separated couple themselves – for years to come.So surely anything that can help people achieve a more constructive separation and reduce animosity, particularly where there are Read more…
One of the things we hear a lot as lawyers when couples are divorcing is that they feel powerless, and not in control of what’s happening to them. Letting a court decide on your future is essentially handing over control to someone who doesn’t know you or your family. Using 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…