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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This is an article provided by the firm of Gillespie, Shields, Durrant & Goldfarb in Phoenix. I’m proud to share it with you. One woman confessed to murder on Facebook. Another fled to Mexico where she tweeted “catch me if you can” along with her geolocation. A Hawaii resident uploaded a video of himself drinking …
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Home > Articles Sue Brookes, and Rose-Marie Drury, both Senior Associates with Mills & Reeve LLP analyse the news and case law relating to financial remedies and divorce during January 2017. Sue Brookes, and Rose-Marie Drury, both Senior Associates with Mills & Reeve LLP. As usual, this month’s update is divided into two parts: A. …
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Home > News CSA caseload has reduced from 1.5 million to 1.1 million cases Following the DWP’s launch of the Child Maintenance Service, which replaced the Child Support Agency (CSA), from June 2014 CSA clients are being told that their current CSA case will close. The DWP has published latest figures showing the progress of …
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WHEN THE OTHER PARENT COMMITS PARENTAL ALIENATION IN ILLINOIS by Nichole M. Waltz When parents come to the decision that living together and raising their children as a couple is not possible, the experience of divorce is usually emotionally stressful, not only for the couple but for the children, as well. But there are divorce cases …
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