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From Separation to Succession: Protecting your Pets
Lucy Bluck
11 December 2025
From Separation to Succession: Protecting your Pets
According to the PDSA’s 2024 report on pet populations, over 51% of UK adults currently own a pet. To many their pets are not “just pets”, but beloved family members and a core part of their family unit. If something unforeseen should happen in the future, most would want the best for their pets. Often, however, when an unplanned major live event happens, such as a divorce or the death of a pet owner, thought has not been given to what should happen to the pets.
11 December 2025
Keeping the peace at Christmas – top tips for shared parenting over the festive season
For separated or divorced families, Christmas time is often an emotionally charged time of year, fraught with practical challenges as parents try to agree contact time and arrangements for Christmas events. Claire Wood shares some tips on how best to prepare for the issues which may arise at Christmas.
5 December 2025
Hang on to your Hockney – Protecting art in prenuptial agreements
It is 16 May 2022. Sotherby’s, New York. A collection is being auctioned, achieving the highest total from a single sale in the auction house’s 277-year history. $922.2 million. The culmination of a bitter divorce between Harry Macklowe (property mogul) and Linda Macklowe (prominent art curator).
5 December 2025
Rings, Rolexes and Renoirs - What happens to the engagement ring and other gifts made during the marriage when a couple gets divorced?
When a party sits down to prepare their financial disclosure on divorce, thoughts can turn to the valuable or sentimental items which may have been gifted between spouses or received from family members during the marriage. The idea of having to share or relinquish such items to a soon-to-be-ex-spouse can leave some people clutching their pearls (quite literally), but is this ever actually required in financial proceedings on divorce?
1 December 2025
It was all a sham
Assets are typically placed in a trust for legitimate purposes, such as safeguarding wealth for future generations. However, arguments that a trust is in fact a “sham” created to hide the true ownership of assets often arise in the context of divorce litigation, bankruptcy/insolvency where a creditor seeks to argue that a trust is a pretence seeking to shield assets from creditors, or in estate disputes, where beneficiaries look to bring assets of the deceased back into an estate.
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