Published 11:19 January 30, 2019 Updated 11:19 January 30, 2019 The EU has introduced new rules that are designed to settle property disputes between what Brussels calls “international married couples and registered partners”, part of an initiative by the European Union to help streamline the process of settling ownership and inheritance rights in the event of …
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As Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos prepare for their own split, we spoke to divorce lawyers, a divorce coach and regular people who’ve been through it about how to divorce without tearing your family apart. Picture: AP Washington – As Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos prepare for their own split, we spoke to divorce lawyers, a divorce …
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The process of divorce in England is not very difficult. However, people go through it every day and even if both sides are for it, it doesn’t become any easier. In fact, there are about 9 steps from the initial divorce petition to the Decree Absolute. The following is a summary of these 9 steps …
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They may have had one of the most disastrous marriages in the history of the British monarchy, but that doesn’t change the simple fact: Princess Diana loved Prince Charles. Even when she discovered he might still have feelings for his ex, Camilla Parker-Bowles, before their wedding, she still went ahead with the ceremony. Obviously, Diana …
The more complex our world has become, the more likely it is that litigation will involve expert evidence. Many family law cases require the expert testimony of psychologists or social workers who make recommendations on what is in a child’s best interests. Other experts appearing frequently in the family courts include real estate appraisers and …
Shutterstock The market for commercial litigation funding has exploded in the United States. Following years of successful funding relationships among law firms, litigants and claimants in more mature funding markets overseas, the U.S. legal market has seen professional litigation funders either import their methods, measures and access to capital to a budding market or otherwise …
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Margaret, Duchess of Argyll caused a scandal in the Sixties (Image: Chris Barham/Daily Mail /Rex) The proceedings ignited huge interest from a prurient public, with rumours of two government ministers, a member of the Royal Family and a Hollywood star being among the 88 men that the lively aristocrat was accused by her husband of …
Princess Diana never wanted to give up on her marriage to Prince Charles, not even after Charles publicly admitted to his affair with Camilla Parker-Bowles. Here’s what finally changed her mind-or, should we say, “who.” When Lady Diana Spencer married the Prince of Wales in a fairytale wedding in the summer of 1981, she had …
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More than half of all magistrates courts in England and Wales have closed since 2010, forcing defendants, witnesses, police, lawyers and justices of the peace to travel sometimes more than 50 miles to access local justice. The full scale of the closures is revealed in data published by the Guardian and the House of Commons …
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He didn’t hit her. He didn’t yell. He didn’t cheat, as far as she knows. It was just that, less than two years into their marriage, Zalika Amadou’s husband had changed. He’d become far too neglectful and indifferent for a young woman who expected, well, more. Her mother, who at 14 had married a stranger twice her …
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