Make sure you are buckled in for this ride. You feel anticipation, worry, anxiety and fear.  It can be likened to when you are waiting to get on a rollercoaster ride.  You continually question if this is for you.  On the ride, you close your eyes, scream and hold on tight.  The ride goes fast and may seem that it will never end.  When the ride stops, you feel dizzy and nauseous.  This is divorce. In the early phases of divorce, it’s hard to be patient while proceeding with your life as if nothing has transpired.   It is challenging […]

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 1717. Following the death of his older brother, the second eldest son of the Dineley Goodere family, John, was forced to give up his life as a merchant marine in India and later a volunteer on HMS Diamond in war against France and take over […]

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 – The rights of cohabiting partners – highlights the risks faced, often by women, upon relationship breakdown or the death of a partner. In the 25 years since 1996, the number of couples living together as cohabitants has more than doubled to 3.6 million, representing around […]

Lawyers warn the cost of living crisis is placing growing strain on couples with divorce enquiries to legal firms soaring to record levels last month. Data from the UK’s largest family law firm, shared exclusively with The Independent, showed lawyers received 4,129 enquiries last month, which is their highest ever recorded. This marks a 25 per cent jump from May this year, and a 34 per cent rise on July 2021 when Stowe Family Law received 3,089 divorce enquiries. Meanwhile, last month’s figures constitute a 132 per cent rise from July 2019 – before the pandemic and the cost of […]

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