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Key takeaways from the Home Secretary’s Statement on Asylum Reforms: 30-months permission to stay for new claims and transitional arrangements for pending cases
Oliver Oldman
11 September 2014
Facing an allegation of domestic abuse on relationship breakdown
Despite decades of work by governments, police agencies, and charities, the statistics relating to domestic abuse are still horrific.
In our experience, it is often at the point of breakup of a relationship that allegations of abuse first surface, which can lead to criminal and civil consequences for the abuser, and can make an already complicated and difficult situation even more tense.
15 August 2014
Uncoupling? How to consciously protect the children
It is all too easy to become self-involved and entirely consumed by the breakdown of a relationship. Separating from spouses or partners turns most people’s worlds upside down. Uncertainty and insecurity reigns. The grief that comes with a relationship breakdown is often suppressed and buried beneath a survival instinct to get through the day.
31 July 2014
Protecting children's wealth on divorce and remarriage
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Sleepless in Seattle, Miracle on 34th Street – all heart-warming tales of single parents who find love again. But all are alarmingly silent about whether the parent in question took steps to protect their wealth for their children’s future.
23 June 2014
Taking children abroad - for holiday and forever
As the number of children born in the UK to foreign parents is soaring, with 1 in 3 nationally and 7 in 10 in London being born to at least one foreign parent, it is no surprise that difficulties increasingly arise when family relationships break down.
Divorcing couples involving foreign nationals are frequently faced with making important decisions about which country to divorce in, the financial support being sought and arrangements for the care of the children. In some cases, the UK immigration status of one party and the child(ren) may also be affected by the separation.
20 June 2014
Preventing parental child abduction - International Travel Child Consent Agreement
The US and Canadian chapter of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (IAML) recently held a meeting at the New York State Bar, at which they looked at recent developments in the law pursuant to the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. I
