Divorce can be a complex enough process when the only individuals directly involved are the spouses themselves. When they have children, though, they need to balance their own needs with the importance of providing an environment in which their sons and daughters can thrive long after mum and dad have parted. There is, however, another […]
Read moreDivorce does not necessarily have to mean discord. It’s a view which seems to contradict the perception – fuelled, in part, by media coverage of certain combustible splits – that the end of a marriage is always accompanied by conflict. Nevertheless, the vast majority of divorces handled by myself and my colleagues at Hall Brown […]
Read moreOver the last couple of years, both before and since the EU referendum vote in June 2016, there has been much talk about the shape of the UK’s ‘divorce’ from its European partners. On many levels, the process by which London unpicks its sovereignty and legal framework from Brussels is not necessarily equivalent to that […]
Read moreOne of the country’s leading new law firms has attributed its latest award win to “hard work and teamwork”. Hall Brown Family Law overcame other, more established nominees to claim the Family Team title in this year’s Manchester Legal Awards (MLAs). It becomes the latest prestigious title picked up by Hall Brown in its first […]
Read more“The past”, the poet L P Hartley once wrote, “is a foreign country; they do things differently there”. Since he penned ‘The Go-Between’ in 1953, the world in which we live has undergone many significant changes, including in the home. In that year, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), roughly two-thirds of men […]
Read moreIn the course of the last four decades, households around the world have benefited from significant and very rapid developments in technology. Not too long ago, the kind of audio and video facilities now provided by affordable, pocket-sized instruments came courtesy of items which were often the size of a suitcase and sometimes prohibitively expensive. […]
Read moreBritain, it is said, is a nation of animal lovers. So, it should come as no surprise that pets of all kinds feature in discussions about who gets what when marriages come to an end. Whilst many husbands and wives are keen to retain their family’s cats or dogs, their ownership is usually resolved relatively […]
Read moreEven as households across the country prepare to take down the Christmas tree and put away the tree and tinsel for another year, family lawyers like myself are already looking ahead to what the next 12 months will bring. One milestone is apparent: 2018 marks the 25th anniversary of the peak in divorce numbers in […]
Read moreWe’ve all heard of whirlwind romances, those relationships which proceed from courtship to wedding vows with breath-taking speed. Divorces, though, don’t follow the same, swift pattern. In fact, if we discount the kind of protracted domestic disputes which occasionally feature on the pages of our national newspapers, divorces take about 18 months to conclude, depending […]
Read moreDespite perceptions to the contrary, marriage is not exactly going out of fashion. Admittedly, the numbers of couples choosing to formalise their relationships in England and Wales each year is not exactly as large as the 426,241 who married in 1972. However, the near quarter of a million weddings in 2014 – the most recent […]
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