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Kingsley Napley’s Medical Negligence Team ‘walks together’ with the Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity
Sharon Burkill
30 November 2021
What about me? Reframing Support for Families following Parental Separation – The Family Solutions Group (FSG) Report - One year on
This month marks the one year anniversary of the publication of the FSG’s report ‘What about Me’. The FSG (of which I am fortunate to be a member), was set up in early 2020 (as a multi-disciplinary sub-group of the Private Law Working Group, chaired by Mr Justice Cobb) to produce recommendations to improve the experiences of, and opportunities for, separating families away from the Family Court. The report, supported by the President of the Family Division, was widely publicised and launched via a webinar attended by over 400 family professionals.
29 November 2021
What does a 'good' divorce look like - When there are children involved?
The idea of a ‘good’ divorce might, for many people, look like the conscious uncoupling modelled by Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin. But the idea of a ‘good enough’ divorce seems more helpful for most separating couples and their children.
3 November 2021
What to do when wider family members are drawn into the divorce process
For relatives of those getting divorced, their concern for their loved one can be compounded by the fear of wider financial repercussions for the family. This can be particularly worrying if family assets have been ‘intermingled’ with the couple’s marital assets, opening up potential claims against those assets, whether held in immediate or extended family members’ names, within family financial structures, or by a spouse on behalf of other family members.
3 November 2021
How UK Capital Gains Tax is applied to UK property when non-UK resident spouses divorce
As non-UK tax residents, the couple will be subject to special rules for calculating the capital gains tax (“CGT”) due in relation to either the sale or transfer of their UK property.
26 October 2021
Book review – Law Society Children Law Handbook by Safda Mahmood
When is the last time you picked up a text book? In this digital homeworking age, so much of our research and reading is now through a screen, but this first edition of the Children Law Handbook is worthy of space on your bookshelf. It is an essential guide for any practitioner dealing with private and/or public children law issues.
- 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