Whilst the Freedom of Information response from the Family Justice Policy Division blames the last government for failing to implement this policy, this assertion is not quite right. Dr Phillip Lee, who was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Victims, Youth and Family Justice in 2016, confirmed that the current government was working on …
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Home > News Theresa May will directly oversee the project Prime Minister Theresa May has announced plans for a major programme of work leading towards bringing forward a Domestic Violence and Abuse Act. The Government has said that the way domestic violence is dealt with at the moment does not go far enough – with …
“First Comes Us” is a new relationship self-help book by couples therapist, Anita Chlipala. I have the book and my opinion is that it great not only for couples on the brink of divorce, but for couples who need help reconnecting and opening up the lines of communication, and even happy couples who want to …
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Home > News Group calls for national strategy to counter ‘Britain’s biggest secret scandal’ The All Party Parliamentary Group on Children of Alcoholics has launched a manifesto calling for the government to create a national strategy to “break the cycle of this terrible disease” and properly to fund local support for children of alcoholics. The …
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One of my most popular blog posts of all time is “Honey, I Want A Divorce: When A Woman Decides to Leave.” With over 200 men and women leaving their comments after reading it, the subject of a wife leaving her husband is clearly a topic of contention between the two genders. I have …
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Home > Articles Lorraine Cavanagh, barrister of St Johns Buildings, explains the implications of a recent important judgment of the President concerning the English courts’ recognition of permanence orders of Scottish children. Lorraine Cavanagh, barrister, St Johns Buildings The President of the Family Division, The Right Honourable Sir James Munby, handed down a judgment on …
When you’ve been focusing on divorce as long as I have, you hear a lot – I mean a LOT – about how divorce has become too easy. “People don’t take marriage seriously any more; the first time they have an argument, somebody runs out and gets a divorce.” The latest salvo comes from the …
This case is painful to read. Margaret Ann Harrison and Jerry Harrison were married for more than 25 years. He was almost certainly unfaithful to her. She presented evidence that, following one episode of his infidelity, she and he had agreed to cancel the prenuptial agreement they had signed the morning before their wedding as …
Courts allow one of the parties to a divorce to ask after a divorce for a change in the living arrangements for a child of the divorce, but most states require a significant change in circumstances to avoid disrupting the child’s life unnecessarily. In Alabama, that requirement is embodied in the case of Ex parte …
It was just a few days ago that I posted about the status of pets in divorce. I said that family law has a rigid view of pets as property and that people in divorce just need to get accustomed to that. Now comes word that Alaska is making a liar of me. As of …
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