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 …
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Should We Make Divorce More Difficult?
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 …
How Not to Revoke a Prenuptial Agreement
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 …
Changing Child Custody After Divorce
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 …
Alaska Orders Divorce Judges To Consider Pets’ Welfare
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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Three Ways Technology Can Haunt Your Divorce
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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Finance and Divorce Update, February 2017
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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DWP reports on progress with Child Support Agency case closure programme
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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Parental Alienation: Is It Going On In Your Divorce?
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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MPs ignore severe child protection warnings from large body of experts, says Together for Children
Home > News Campaign group publishes synopsis of expert advice A new report, from Together for Children, says that a large body of experts has warned Members of Parliament of the grave danger of undoing decades of legal protection for vulnerable children and young people. This advice, the campaign group says, was ignored by the …