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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
28 November 2022
Good Divorce Week 2022: Resolving disputes away from court
This year, Resolution’s initiative “Good Divorce Week” is centred around raising awareness of the different ways in which parties can resolve their disputes outside of the court process. This focus has been prompted in recent months (and years) by a family court system in crisis, with huge backlogs on administrative matters and long waiting times for hearings putting a significant strain on families. This blog will discuss some of the non-court options for those needing to resolve a family law issue.
23 November 2022
Divorce in the partnership - an exploration of the issues which arise when law or accountancy firm partners divorce
When equity partners in a law or accountancy firm (or those with a lawyer or accountant spouse) divorce, careful consideration needs to be given to the partner's financial position and the disclosure required to understand and corroborate it.
18 November 2022
The Domestic Abuse Act 2021 and the overlap between family and criminal proceedings
Some of the most difficult cases the legal system has to deal with span both the criminal and family courts, often at the same time. From a practitioner’s perspective understanding how the criminal and family regimes operate and overlap is essential in order to help clients navigate their way through these legally complex and emotive cases.
15 November 2022
Uncapping Bankers' Bonuses: Implications For Divorce Settlements
Couples going through or contemplating divorce, should consider how uncapping bankers' bonuses in the UK will affect financial settlements.
3 November 2022
National Fertility Awareness Week 2022
It’s National Fertility Awareness Week and this year’s theme is #Fighting4fertility. The aim of Fertility Network UK’s week of action is to make sure that fertility is talked about more openly in order to raise awareness, ensure that people touched directly or indirectly by infertility (which is likely to be most people!) have the information they need and to push for change in a number of areas.
- Children
- Civil Partnerships & Co-habitation
- Divorce & Separation
- Financial Settlements
- International Adoption & Surrogacy
- International Family Law
- Mediation & Alternatives to Litigation
- Pre-nuptial & Post-nuptial Agreements
- Anglo French Family Law
- Legal Updates
- Reflections on The Split
- Child Relocation after Divorce or Separation