What history’s worst family feud teaches us about divorce law reforms

Meet the mad and murderous Dineley Gooderes The prize for history’s worst family feud is undoubtedly hard to judge. But the breakdown of the marriage between John Dineley Goodere and Mary Lawford in the eighteenth century and the subsequent demise of the Goodere Dineleys is surely in the running. The fateful tragedy started back in …

Commons Women and Equalities Committee calls for reforms to cohabitation law

Home > News A group of cross-party MPs is demanding reforms to laws which, they say, leave cohabiting couples with ‘inferior’ protections to those who have formally married or have obtained a civil partnership. With cohabitating couples representing the fastest growing family type in England and Wales, the Women and Equalities Committee’s new Report – …