IFLAS will use arbitration, which is an out-of-court resolution system, sometimes known as private judging. Arbitrators are trained to adjudicate and resolve disputes. Many will be retired or part-time judges. All IFLAS arbitrators will be experienced lawyers used to dealing with international family law disputes. Among the benefits of arbitration are that the parties can …
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Home > News Paras 5.1 to 5.6 replaced by new paras 5.1 to 5.2 Sir James Munby, the President of the Family Division, has issued the following circular. On 4 May 2017 I handed down judgment In the matter of a Ward of Court [2017] EWHC 1022 (Fam). It related to the question whether police …
In circumstances where one parent seeks permission from the other to take a child on holiday but permission is not forthcoming, then an application can be made to the Family Court for a Specific Issue Order. This type of court application would ask the court for authority to remove the child from England and Wales …
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Over the past decade, London has become renowned worldwide as the best place to divorce for the less wealthy spouse. Dubbed the “divorce capital” of the world, there have been many cases going through London’s courts involving large settlements, some consisting of hundreds of millions of pounds. The latest divorce case involving large sums …
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Darrow Montgomery/FileFor a tiny street lined predominantly with colorful, two-story townhouses, Richardson Place NW has over the past several months experienced outsize drama. Last year, a new kind of housing arrived on the Truxton Circle block. Perturbed by how this project could change their way of life, residents organized and collectively cried foul. Now those …
SPLIT REVEALED Lord Brian Gill had split from wife Catherine rubbed stamped in April but details were kept secret as they weren’t heard in open court A JUDGE was sued for divorce in his own court. Lord Brian Gill, 75, had his split from wife Catherine rubber stamped in April. Lord Brian Gill is now …
He is in the midst of a nasty divorce battle with estranged wife Mel B. And Stephen Belafonte looked deep in thought as he returned from an evening out in West Hollywood on Friday. The 42-year-old, whose singer wife filed for divorce in March, was spotted having a drink with a pal at a dimly-lit …
Katie O’Callaghan, Boodle Hatfield It is Britain’s biggest ever divorce award. A High Court judge has told a City banker to hand over £453 million to his estranged wife. The couple – who cannot be identified – followed the blueprint of so many big-money divorce cases that reach the courts. The 44-year-old wife had spent …
‘court action tightened her grip on me’ Ricksen’s ex-wife Graciela L’Ami is appealing a court decision ordering her to pay the former Gers captain over £830,000 of assets RANGERS legend Ricksen has accused his ex-wife of dragging out their bitter financial feud amid fears he ‘would never make it’ after his terminal motor neurone disease diagnosis. He thought …
Most everybody who deals with custody issues in Alabama knows about the McLendon standard. Arising from the case of Ex parte McLendon, 455 So.2d 863 (Ala. 1984), the McLendon standard (after judicial reinterpretation and clarification over the years), now provides that a noncustodial parent seeking to change custody must show three things: (1) that he …
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