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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
7 October 2011
Family Law: Autumn 2011- Family cases - who pays the piper?
Funding legal advice is a perennial difficulty, especially when one party controls the purse strings.
7 October 2011
Family Law: Autumn 2011 - How wide does English divorce law cast its net?
Generally, English law recognises at face value a marriage celebrated overseas. The same is not always true of a foreign divorce – or more accurately, the financial orders made following a foreign divorce.
6 October 2011
Family Law: Autumn 2011 - Is maintenance a meal ticket for life?
Is maintenance a meal ticket for life? Should courts actively encourage maintenance recipients to strive to become more self-sufficient?
6 October 2011
Family Law: Autumn 2011- Cohabitation the next instalment...
In our January Edition, Chris McIntosh provided an overview of property rights of unmarried couples. The case of Kernott –v- Jones [2010] EWCA Civ 578 brings the position up to date.
13 September 2011
Harrogate makes its mark for the annual gathering of International Family Lawyers
Jane Keir and I have just returned from the Silver Jubilee meeting of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (IAML) . While normally the conferences are held in exotic destinations such as Singapore or Buenos Aires, fortunately (or rather unfortunately) this year we only had to drive up the A1 to North Yorkshire.
- 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