Family solicitors use previous cases to name things. So we have Calderbank letters from Calderbank v Calderbank, Rose orders from Rose v Rose and Mesher orders from Mesher v Mesher and Hall. I appreciate that this is not too helpful…
I was contacted this week and asked to write about a specific problem which has arisen in the life of a reader’s family member, who has suffered a relationship breakdown, and is unmarried, not on the house deeds and is…
The difficulty of agreeing on the values of smaller items in a divorce can present a barrier to settlement. However, we have been reminded recently that proportionality is the “name of the game”*. To resolve a financial dispute there needs…
Are you cohabiting? If so, you are amongst the 15% of both men and women in this country aged 16 to 59 who are currently cohabiting. Whilst some of these couples will not buy property, many of them will, and…
Catching up with the new case law this week, I was interested to find that one contained a paragraph titled “A Warning”*. There is usually a need to tease out threads from a judgement, raising different opinions on how those…
I am always surprised by the extent to which Milton Keynes* is dismissed as a concrete cow wasteland. It is, admittedly, a bit different to anywhere else in the UK . One of the initiatives that is taking place in…
The recent case of T v M* demonstrates that the answer to this question is not “wait four months and then ask the judge to change his order”. In T v M, the final hearing of the financial case was…
Today, The Centre for Social Justice thinktank published a press release, stating that one million children in the UK grow up in a “man desert” with no contact with their father or a male role model or a male teacher.…
Social media certainly has the capacity to get people into legal difficulties. The High Court found last week that a tweet posted by Sally Bercow was libellous, and as a result, she is going to be paying out damages for…
A recent case has highlighted the dangers of divorce for the self employed. If you are a PAYE employee, your annual salary is set out in your P60 and payslips. If you are self-employed, your income is likely to be…