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Key takeaways from the Home Secretary’s Statement on Asylum Reforms: 30-months permission to stay for new claims and transitional arrangements for pending cases
Oliver Oldman
31 October 2014
The presumption of parental involvement and the changing attitudes to children’s care
In April this year, significant amendments were made to the family justice system. One of the major changes only came into force on 22 October and will affect separating parents going forward.
Section 11 of the Child and Families Act 2014 (the Act) now provides that, when the court makes a decision about who a child should live or spend time with, there is a presumption (unless the contrary is shown) that the involvement of both parents in the child’s life will further the child’s welfare. This has also been referred to as ‘the presumption of parental involvement’.
20 October 2014
Divorce prediction and avoidance - a therapeutic answer
Last week was a bad one for Hatton Garden. Research from Emory University in Georgia, USA was published, which apparently showed that men who spend more on engagement rings are more likely to divorce.
9 October 2014
Unmarried parents’ financial obligations on separation - spot the difference
The number of children born to unmarried parents has more than doubled since the 1990s and it may only be a few years before the majority of babies are born outside marriage. However, awareness of unmarried parents’ financial obligations towards their children and one another on separation remains worryingly low.
25 September 2014
Media reporting lessons from the Cooper-Hohn divorce
Article first published in Wealth Briefing on 25 September 2014.
Media reporting of divorce financial cases is troublesome. It is difficult for the parties, who are often high-profile as well as high-net-worth, their advisers and the media.
16 September 2014
International and UK surrogacy – lessons learnt from the Baby Gammy case and calls for regulation
Recent media coverage of the Baby Gammy surrogacy case in Thailand has, once again, put commercial surrogacy at the forefront of public debate. In relation to that, I have seen countless articles and listened to radio programmes highlighting the pitfalls of surrogacy and the law in the UK. Many of the reports on the law here have been incorrect; it is a widely stated myth that payments to a surrogate are illegal in the UK, which isn’t true.
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