In recent years, our increasing use of smart devices has transformed our professional and personal lives. Those changes have not been confined to younger age groups traditionally thought most alert to the emergence of new trends. Data released only last month revealed that the number of individuals of pension age with a mobile ‘phone had […]
Read moreFrom time to time, our national print media carry stories about a celebrity marriage ending in a so-called “quickie divorce”. Such reports, of course, fail to acknowledge the fact that all divorces in England and Wales – regardless of the renown or otherwise of participants – must follow a process which is not necessarily rapid […]
Read moreLast month’s change of Government means that the economy is the subject of acute scrutiny at the moment. Labour has already warned of a £22 billion ‘black hole’ which, says the new Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, means that October’s Budget is “going to be painful” (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c0rw9edy00zt . Yet even before that happens, many households across […]
Read moreTaking the decision to end a marriage is, in our experience, never something done lightly. One reason why so many spouses think so hard about whether to do is because of a natural sense of uncertainty about what comes next. That is particularly true when a couple have children. They don’t just need to weigh […]
Read moreWhilst many of us might try to downplay the amount of time which we spend online, we can’t necessarily ignore the increasing impact which social media has had on our lives in the last decade or so. According to figures published in January, just over 56 million people in the UK have accounts with one […]
Read moreSummer is meant to be good for the spirit. Even for those used to the unpredictable nature of British weather, time spent with one’s family away from the office and taking advantage of what sunshine there is has its benefits. It has, however, been impossible to escape another kind of cloud on the horizon. The […]
Read moreAlthough it might not always seem like it, family life in Britain is in a constant state of change. Almost from one year to the next, it can appear that opinions about what is going on in homes have to be revised. Whilst society has, of course, experienced great and continuous shifts over many decades, […]
Read moreAnyone in paid employment know that a job comes with a degree of scrutiny, regardless of the nature of their profession. Some positions, of course, are very much in the spotlight and the pressure associated with them is all the more intense. The performances of elite footballers, for instance, are monitored by their clubs, media […]
Read moreWithin the wide span of cases handled by Hall Brown and other family law firms, it is possible to detect certain emerging patterns over time. They are dependent on more than an individual household’s circumstances and can be influenced by everything from the global economic climate, government policy, court judgements and even celebrities. One of […]
Read moreEvery few months, statisticians at the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) publish figures detailing the volume and types of work passing through family courts across the country. They provide the kind of broad context and evidence of important individual patterns which can sometimes even escape family law firms concentrating on their respective caseloads. The latest tranche […]
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