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Kingsley Napley’s Medical Negligence Team ‘walks together’ with the Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity
Sharon Burkill
10 March 2015
Grounds for divorce in Dubai…would it stand up over here?
In Dubai, a woman was recently seeking a divorce from her husband on the grounds that he couldn’t satisfy her sexual needs. In what is usually considered a traditional culture where, for example, sex out of marriage is punishable by imprisonment and the perceived role of men and women in society and at home is very different to the UK, the case grabbed our attention.
4 March 2015
Tax and divorce - if not now, when?
As we leave the winter behind, and with it the trivialisation of divorce by some parts of the media and the frenzy of “Black Monday” and “D Day”, the asset-rich in unhappy marriages should start thinking about when, strategically, to end their marriages.
26 January 2015
10 things you need to know about farming divorce
Jane Keir outlines 10 of the key things you need to know about the complexities of divorces involving farms.
8 January 2015
The Cohabitation Rights Bill – Opting out
The Cohabitation Rights Bill (the “Bill”) aims to establish a framework of rights and responsibilities and provide basic protections for cohabitees similar to those available to married couples.
8 January 2015
Is “move in with me” the new “marry me”? The Cohabitation Rights Bill
For decades many couples have laboured under the misapprehension that they are married at common law, a “common law wife”, despite never having donned a white dress, hired a marquee or uttered the fateful words “I do”. Many long-term cohabiting couples assume that, upon a breakdown of their relationship, they will receive similar treatment to married couples. This is a dangerous assumption for cohabiting couples to make as they currently have a very different legal status to married couples. The Cohabitation Rights Bill aims to provide basic protection for cohabitants and the Bill, if passed, will be welcome news for long-term cohabitees.
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