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From garage to unicorn – Employment law lessons for scaling tech teams
Catherine Bourne
20 December 2013
How separation and divorce could affect your right to remain in the UK
The decision to divorce is never an easy one. By its very nature such decisions can often be emotionally charged and made in haste. If the relationship involves a couple with international roots outside of the UK and the EU, there are a number of important considerations to be had before deciding to start divorce proceedings.
14 November 2013
International surrogacy laws are not keeping up with changing social patterns
In the absence of harmonised rules, the difference in worldwide approach will continue to cause legal confusion and complication as surrogacy becomes commonplace, say Claire Wood and Katie Newbury.
23 October 2013
Call for changes to family law - “the dinosaurs have had their day”
These were the words of The Honourable Mr Justice Coleridge in his call for a “root and branch overhaul” of family law legislation and procedure in England and Wales to ensure that “even the more difficult cases can be solved in a much more sophisticated and modern way”.
23 October 2013
Recognising the wishes and feelings of children - how old is old enough?
Children grow up so quickly. They have opinions from a young age and our society encourages children to be confident and to speak out. From age 14, they make decisions about which GCSE and A Level subjects they want to study, which will impact their careers and the rest of their lives. But, at what point does the law recognise their opinions?
11 October 2013
The rise and pitfalls of cohabitation
Marriage (tick), house (tick), baby (tick)…. Or maybe not…
As we plough forward into the 21st century, the classic life plan of finding someone to marry, setting up home and starting a family (in that order) has become old-fashioned, impracticable and, to many people, undesirable. These days, the focus for many 20 and 30-somethings is on recession-proof careers and getting on the property ladder. Marriage and children often come later, if at all.
- Children
- Civil Partnerships & Co-habitation
- Divorce & Separation
- Financial Settlements
- International Adoption & Surrogacy
- International Family Law
- Mediation & Alternatives to Litigation
- Pre-nuptial & Post-nuptial Agreements
- Anglo French Family Law
- Legal Updates
- Reflections on The Split
- Child Relocation after Divorce or Separation