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Rayner my parade! The importance of specialist advice.
Jemma Brimblecombe
7 August 2019
Spousal maintenance: A system of Russian roulette?
Sital Fontenelle and Elizabeth Burch consider the different approaches to spousal maintenance and whether a formula for maintenance would provide clarity.
1 February 2019
Using a formula for spousal maintenance - does it add up?
When it comes to determining spousal maintenance - should we have a system which delivers an outcome that is certain or one which is discretionary? This was the topic of a lively debate hosted by the Kingsley Napley family team with a panel of speakers that included esteemed family law judges and QCs. Context was provided by Baroness Deech’s Divorce (Financial Provision) Bill which, at the time of the debate was at committee stage in the House of Lords (it is now at 2nd reading stage in the House of Commons).
14 January 2019
Going your own way – top tips for limiting emotional and financial costs when divorcing
January is the month for New Year resolutions and, unfortunately, for some this involves deciding to push forward with the divorce they have been contemplating.
11 January 2019
Pensions on divorce – mind the gap!
“Divorced Women missing out on Pensions Wealth” - so shouted the headline in the Daily Telegraph on the 7th January 2019, a date coincidentally dubbed “Divorce Day” by the media, so clever positioning by the Royal London to whose Director of Policy, Sir Steve Webb (the former Lib Dem MP and Minister of State for Pensions in the coalition government of David Cameron) the headline belongs.
20 December 2018
Property prices and divorce in the shadow of Brexit
No one, anywhere, has any idea which direction the property market is going to go in 2019 but if you ask Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England, his worst case scenario is that a post Brexit UK, with no deal, it could see prices fall by 35% over three years.