How to Build Your Credit After Divorce

Divorce is stressful for everyone, but it’s especially so if you’ve never established an independent credit history. Splitting up can make it difficult for you to get loans or lines of credit on your own. And if you don’t close joint accounts, your ex-spouse’s actions can affect your credit long after the divorce papers are …

Employers at Higher Risk of Age-Discrimination Litigation with Changing Worker Demographics

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Business Litigation Report – June 2018

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Google and FitBit Collaboration Could Affect Personal Injury Litigation

Fitbit Google and Fitbit Inc. announced on April 30 that they are teaming up to leverage the widespread use of wearable technology to improve the quality of health care. According to the official press release, the deal provides Fitbit with access to Google’s Cloud Healthcare API, which will connect user data with a patient’s electronic …

Forum Magazine: Is Litigation Finance Now Getting the Attention of the Legal Industry?

Litigation finance has been around for a while, but now it may be getting harder for the legal industry to ignore. The practice generally involves a funding group agreeing to provide capital or assume expenses of a litigation matter in return for a piece of the settlement or award once the case is finished. Proponents …

Unreasonable behaviour: Owens v Owens highlights that divorce law is no longer fit for purpose

Offering no defence Over the years, a practice has developed whereby unreasonable behaviour divorce petitions are often drafted citing the minimum detail of behaviour required in order to obtain the divorce. A respondent to an unreasonable divorce petition is entitled, in their acknowledgment, to deny the truth of all of the allegations of unreasonable behaviour …

The Divorce (Financial Provision) Bill and the impact on financial planning

The Technical team at Prudential explore the Divorce (Financial Provision) Bill and the impact on financial planning. The Divorce (Financial Provision) Bill passed through its second reading in the House of Lords in January 2017. No date has yet been set for Committee stage but what impact might this Bill have especially in relation to …

3 Tips For Breaking The News About Your Divorce To Your Children

Getting a divorce in any situation can be challenging. However, if you and your spouse have children together, especially young children, divorcing can quickly become even more complicated and difficult. To help set the tone for the entire divorce process, you and your spouse are going to want to ensure that you initially break the …