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Kingsley Napley’s Medical Negligence Team ‘walks together’ with the Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity
Sharon Burkill
19 December 2017
Children, divorce, narcissism and parental alienation - the perfect storm
I have for many years been representing people coming out of marriages where the other party is or is believed to fall somewhere on the Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) spectrum. The majority of these cases involve children and it is a miserable reality of family law that children often become the battleground in their parents’ drama.
5 December 2017
Expat divorce in Dubai – the challenges of child relocation and navigating UAE residency visa options
We represent expatriate families going through marriage breakdown in the UAE in respect of their rights or indeed risks if their divorce takes place in England. The first question that we are usually asked is “Should I stay in Dubai or should I go back to England?” The response is usually to ask “Can you stay or must you go?” In the UAE, residency is based on sponsorship by either an employer or a spouse and without a sponsor you cannot legally reside in the UAE. It gets worse, particularly when children are involved.
2 November 2017
Covert recordings and coercive behaviour - an area ripe for reform?
Last week, it was reported in broadsheet newspapers that Sir James Munby, the most senior family court judge in England and Wales, suggested that “widespread distrust […] of the competence or even the integrity of the family justice system and of the professionals involved in it” is one of the reasons for a rise in the use covert recordings among those involved in family court proceedings.
16 October 2017
Divorce in the digital age - poacher or gamekeeper?
Let’s face it, we are all amateur sleuths these days, and divorce lawyers are no exception. We use the internet to find a restaurant and a hotel. Inevitably, we also have a look at our clients or their spouses and partners at the beginning of a new case. There have been some disasters, among others an apocryphal story where a divorce lawyer with a new client took a peek at the husband on LinkedIn….and oops! - that was the first news the husband had that his wife was considering a divorce. Everybody knows that the inverted iPhone at home is the tell-tale of infidelity (it avoids the possibility of a spouse seeing the impossible to explain “see you tomorrow at the Travelodge, Big Boy” or similar).
10 October 2017
Maintenance pending suit and interim maintenance - where divorce meets poker
In a story picked up all over the world, The Times of India reported that a husband had been ordered to pay “a wapping RS four lakl (approximately £4,800) every month” pending the final decision in the divorce.
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