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Kingsley Napley’s Medical Negligence Team ‘walks together’ with the Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity
Sharon Burkill
29 March 2018
Top tips for “silver splitters" and those remarrying in later years
Divorce amongst the over 60s, often referred to as the “silver” or “grey” divorces, are on the increase according to recent data from the Office for National Statistic. Reasons cited for the dramatic increase in divorces later in life include longer life expectancy, greater financial independence of women, reduced stigma surrounding divorce, and greater presence of retirees on social media and online dating sites. Divorcing and remarrying later in life typically involves added legal complexities. To address some of these, Sital Fontenelle sets out some top tips and common pitfalls in this blog.
26 March 2018
How to save money on divorce and build your best case
Getting divorced can be expensive. Follow these 5 tips to keep your costs down and build your best case. Good lawyers don’t like seeing clients spend more than they need to on legal fees. One way to stop this happening is to think about how we work together. These tips are based on what, in my experience, can help keep a case on track and in budget.
26 March 2018
Divorce – how narcissists are tackled by the Family Courts in England and Dubai
The narcissist is a challenge for both Family Court Judges and the object of the narcissist’s regime of control and coercion. Faced with an arch deceiver, Judges, however experienced they are in identifying dishonesty and manipulation, regularly fall victim to a personality hell bent on winning; but not in Dubai it seems.
9 March 2018
US expats in the UK: The price of divorce has just increased
Divorce might have just become more expensive for US taxpayers. In the US, alimony payments (otherwise known as maintenance or periodical payments in the United Kingdom), but not child maintenance, are deductible by the paying spouse and are taxable to the recipient spouse as income. In the small print of the widely heralded tax reforms approved by the Trump administration in January 2018, the tax break will end for all divorce financial settlements finalised after December 31, 2018.
1 March 2018
Coercive control and its effect on family court cases
It is now three years since the Serious Crimes Act 2015 received royal assent, creating a new offence of coercive behaviour in intimate or familial relationships. Last week the Sentencing Council recommended harsher sentences for offences in a domestic setting that have the capacity for lasting psychological and emotional effect. These changes not only have an impact on criminal cases of domestic abuse, but also divorce and family justice related cases too, because criminal proceedings often have a bearing on divorce and children cases.
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