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From garage to unicorn – Employment law lessons for scaling tech teams
Catherine Bourne
24 February 2021
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?
23 February 2021
Back to school…but is it time for a change?
The dark and dank month of January is finally behind us and the glimmer of hope brought about by the possibility of a brighter Spring with a ‘less locked-down version of lockdown’ is here. We are told that children may return to school from 8 March and after a long period of home-schooling and working from home, many friends, family and colleagues are reviewing their lives, careers and general ‘set up’ in an effort to ensure that 2021 and beyond is a time where they and their families can thrive, rather than merely survive.
17 February 2021
Relocating with children following family breakdown and the impact of COVID-19 and Brexit
These days we routinely read news pieces about people leaving London. For example ‘2020 saw record number of homebuyers move out of London as Covid sparks exodus from city life’ and ‘the population of the U.K.’s capital city could fall in 2021 for the first time in more than 30 years… as the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic prompts people to reconsider big-city life’’. [U.K. economic outlook report by PwC, released in January 2021]
5 February 2021
Children’s Mental Health Week: managing parental conflict
This week marks Children’s Mental Health Week, first launched in 2015 by Place2Be to bring attention to the importance of children and young people’s mental health.
25 January 2021
Parental disputes over childhood vaccinations
The roll out of the Coronavirus vaccine brings a potential new area of dispute, which the family court dealt with recently in the case of M v H and P and T [2020] EWFC 93.
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