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Keeping the peace at Christmas – top tips for shared parenting over the festive season
Lauren Evans
1 November 2019
National Fertility Awareness Week – facing fertility issues and the strains it can place on relationships
This week is National Fertility Awareness Week. Culminating with World Fertility Day on 2 November 2019, Fertility Network UK’s focus throughout the week includes: the impact of infertility on your mental health; infertility in the workplace; men and infertility; and fertility education. A huge number of important issues are raised, and stories shared, which helps us to see that infertility touches the lives of many people in many ways. In this blog, Connie Atkinson shares her personal experience of dealing with fertility issues and how she as a family and divorce lawyer witness the strain it can place on relationships.
29 October 2019
The Indian “joint family” and the challenges of protecting family wealth on divorce
The “joint family” is a concept which most Indians will be familiar with, even those growing up in a less traditional family set up in England. In India, it is seen as the most desirable set up for families as a way to retain wealth and working together. However, the concept of ‘sharing as needed’ can place the family wealth under significant risk of attack upon divorce and create unnecessary (and often costly) complexity and financial uncertainty at an already difficult time.
11 September 2019
Co-parenting with my ex - how do I do it?
Parenting is hard. Working out how to parent with your partner is hard. Who does what, when and how, where the boundaries are – so many small decisions that make up a big part of your child’s life. So how do you co-parent when your partner becomes your ex?
20 August 2019
Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Bill – what it means and where it is at now
The Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (“MCA 1973”) in England and Wales currently provides couples seeking a divorce with one ground for doing so; that their marriage has irretrievably broken down. The ground must be proved by establishing one of five “facts”. Commonly used are the two fault, or conduct, facts of adultery or unreasonable behaviour, with 60% of English and Welsh divorces being granted on a fault fact. Many divorcing couples opt to use a fault fact as they do not want to wait the minimum two years’ separation required before applying under one of the “fault-less” separation facts. This blog looks at the proposed Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Bill 2017-2019.
8 August 2019
Controlling and coercive behaviour - “This isn’t what love should feel like”
The recent Channel 4 drama “I am Nicola” sought to portray the dynamics of a couple, Nicola and Adam, with a serious imbalance of power in their relationship - with the central theme of coercive control. Stacey Nevin explores the issues, including the interplay between family law proceedings and the criminal offence of controlling and coercive behaviour.
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