If ever there was a case for no fault divorce, poor Mrs Owens’ is it. It was announced yesterday that, despite taking her appeal to the Supreme Court, Tini Owens must remain married to her husband of 40 years because a “joyless” marriage is not adequate grounds for divorce if Read more…
The current divorce law provides that, unless the parties have been separated for two years or more, one party has to blame the other and rely on the ‘fact’ of either behaviour or adultery as the reason for the marriage breakdown. The solicitors’ family law association Resolution has been campaigning 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…
In April 2015 the deputy president of the Supreme Court, Baroness Hale, called for reform of the current divorce law. Unless the parties to a marriage have been separated for more than two years, the law requires that one party makes allegations that the other has either behaved unreasonably or Read more…