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Keeping the peace at Christmas – top tips for shared parenting over the festive season
Lauren Evans
6 April 2018
Skin In The Game – how to get a divorce lawyer invested in you and your case
Author Nassim Nicholas Taleb wrote “Skin In The Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life, which is centred around the idea that people should only be listened to or trusted if they have a personal stake in the outcome. or many people, their divorce or marital agreement is the most significant negotiation or contest they ever enter into and they put their trust, usually, in someone who is remunerated according to how long they spend on the task. Win or lose, their divorce lawyer earns exactly the same. In this blog, we explore how you can ensure that your divorce lawyer is invested in you and your case.
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.
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