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What is your duty to co-operate with your regulator?
Zoe Beels
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.
18 August 2011
Inherited wealth ‘protected’ from divorce
In a report published by The Telegraph this week, the High Court has awarded a wife, after 25 years of marriage, only £4.3million pounds in a divorce where the total wealth was between £21million and £24million. The reason given for this unequal sharing of wealth was that much of the Husband’s wealth had been inherited from his family and so the court felt it should remain with him.
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