Since the start of the pandemic, family law and divorce cases have moved out of the court room and onto video calls and telephone conferences. These are sometimes called remote hearings, virtual hearings or online hearings. Different family courts use…
Can we still get divorced during the Coronavirus Crisis? Yes, you can start the divorce process at the moment, either online or using paper court forms. There may be delays in processing a new petition because of the crisis. The…
The President of the Family Division provided parents with clarity this week about how to deal with a child arrangements dispute during the ongoing Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic in the UK. This update follows our blog yesterday setting out the recent…
A Financial Order is a court order which formalises how money and property will be divided between divorcing couples. Only a court can make a Financial Order and this is the only way of making a financial division legally binding*.…
Last year, Theresa May’s government introduced the Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Bill to reform the process for obtaining a divorce in England & Wales. The main purpose of the bill was to remove the need for divorcing spouses to provide…
In 2019, 72% of women who accessed support from Refuge services in the UK identified experiencing technology abuse, which can range from persistent telephone calls from perpetrators, being targeted via social media, having their location tracked or spyware installed in…
On 31 December 2019, opposite sex couples in England and Wales were finally allowed to enter into civil partnerships as an alternative to marriage. This change in the law follows a ruling in June 2018 by the Supreme Court that…
There are many different types of lawyer that can advise on your family law matter in England & Wales. Some categories of lawyer are regulated by professional bodies and carry mandatory levels of indemnity insurance. Other lawyers are unregulated and…
Delays in the courts of England & Wales continue to mount, as shown in the latest quarterly statistics published by the Ministry of Justice on 27 June 2019. The average time from petition to Decree Nisi was 33 weeks, and…
The Government has published the new Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Bill which seeks to modernise some of the terminology used in divorce cases. You can read more about the Bill and the move to no-fault divorce in our previous blog.…