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Make This Mother's Day Marvellous With These Lockdown-London Ideas
Brigit’s Bakery’s Mother’s Day Afternoon Tea On the one hand, Mother’s Day: clearly a made-up-by-marketing-execs celebration. On the other hand… any excuse to celebrate sounds good about now — and there are still plenty of ways you can spoil somebody from afar on Sunday 14 March, with help from some excellent London-based businesses. From afternoon tea delivered to her door to a virtual night at the theatre, you’re bound to find something she’ll love in one of the round-ups below. Basically, if you want to show just how much you care/make up for last year’s disappointing bunch of daffs/cement your […]
Adele and Simon Konecki ‘FINALISE their divorce two years after split’
Adele and Simon Konecki have reportedly finalised their divorce nearly two years after their split. The Someone Like You hitmaker, 32, and charity CEO, 46, are now said to be ‘officially divorced’ after a judge signed off on the settlement on Thursday, according to US Weekly. It comes following reports that Adele was forced to use mediators to split up her £140million ($190million) fortune during proceedings. The US publication claims the singer and charity CEO submitted a ‘judgement package’ last month in which the former couple ‘opted to determine rights to community property and debts through mediation’. ‘Finalised’: Adele and Simon Konecki have reportedly […]
Divorcees whose children live abroad forced to pay hundreds of pounds to comply with court visitatio…
© Provided by The Telegraph COVID-19 testing site at Heathrow Airport Divorcees whose children live abroad are being forced to pay hundreds of pounds to comply with court visitation orders, lawyers have warned. In accordance with current government guidelines, travellers must purchase a £210 testing kit, and take their test on day two and day eight of isolation. Those who fail to do so may face penalties of up to £2,000. The Government has an approved list of people who qualify for exemption from the payment – including the likes of aerospace engineers, BBC journalists, defence personnel, offshore oil and gas […]
Adele and Simon Konecki 'finalise their divorce two years after splitting'
Adele and Simon Konecki have reportedly finalised their divorce, nearly two years are they separated. The 32-year-old singer and the charity CEO, 46, are now “officially divorced” according to US Weekly who have reported that a judge signed off the settlement on Thursday. It has reported that mediators were forced to split the £140 million fortune that the couple had amassed. The US media site claims that Adele and Simon submitted a “judgement package” in February which stated that they “opted to determine rights to community property and debts through mediation”. © Daily Star Adele While Adele and Simon are […]
The government's hasty Covid law-making cannot become a template for the future | Jonathan Jone…
Alongside its huge health and societal impact, the coronavirus crisis is also reshaping our legal landscape. Responding to the pandemic has led to the creation of the most intrusive and stringent laws of modern times, affecting every aspect of our lives. Almost all of those laws made by the government over the past year have been as secondary legislation – that is, regulations made by ministers – rather than primary legislation, which is approved by the House of Commons and the House of Lords. Using secondary legislation is quite normal for technical measures or for filling in the detail of […]
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s marriage was over two years before divorce as stars hit a ‘rough pat…
KIM Kardashian just filed for divorce from husband Kanye West, but their marriage has reportedly been over for more than two years. The rapper’s controversial comments about slavery in 2018 brought upon the downfall of the power couple’s relationship. 💖 Read our Kim Kardashian live blog for the very latest news, gossip and updates on her divorce from Kanye… 9 Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s marriage apparently went downhill beginning in 2018Credit: Instagram A source told Us Weekly that Kim, 40, took issue with many of the things Kanye, 43, said in public over the years, and the personal stories […]
Litigation looms after deal to end dispensary lawsuits denied
Shutterstock image Advertisement WARREN — Warren is now facing a deluge of litigation related to its handling of the city’s medical marijuana dispensary licensing process after the City Council’s decision to reject a blanket deal that would have ended a myriad of lawsuits. That really comes as no surprise. According to attorney Andrea Pike, representing the city in the Macomb County Circuit Court cases, 12 of the 15 entities that were originally awarded medical marijuana dispensary licenses in September 2019 have sued for damages so far. Their licenses were invalidated last year by Macomb County Circuit Court Judge Carl […]
Litigation and writedowns push Credit Suisse to fourth-quarter loss
Credit Suisse swung to a fourth-quarter loss of SFr353m ($393m) as coronavirus-related credit writedowns and provisions for litigation eroded modest gains in underlying performance at the bank. Write-offs related to underperforming loans and defaults tripled to SFr1.1bn, almost four times higher than the average level over the previous 11 years, the bank said on Thursday. This was driven by the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. The results mean Credit Suisse’s net income for 2020 was down 22 per cent year on year to SFr2.7bn, with revenues flat at SFr22.4bn. By contrast, Zurich rival UBS posted its highest profit in […]
Divorce and the Pandemic: 6 Issues that Could Lead a Couple to Splitting Up
It is hard to believe that we have been living through the COVID-19 pandemic for nearly a year, still facing these strange times of shutdowns, masks, quarantining, and now, vaccines. I think we’d all agree that living in a pandemic is painful and can put a huge strain on relationships, including a marriage. But what about divorce and the pandemic? Can this illness that has caused so much tragedy, not to mention stress, cause a couple to get divorced? As an experienced divorce attorney, I can see how this traumatic and taxing pandemic could ultimately lead more couples to marital […]
7 Things That Contribute To Negative Effects of Divorce on Children
Research has shown that the most damaging part of divorce for children is involving them in loyalty binds. A loyalty bind happens when a child must make a choice that will be wrong with one parent and not the other. The child feels caught in the middle between parents. Basically, they get the message that it is not OK to love their other parent. This is just one thing that contributes to negative effects of divorce on children. Here is a list of 7 other things parents do—consciously or unconsciously that contribute to negative effects of divorce on children, including […]