Published on 22 August, 2017 | Katie Dillon
It is an unfortunate fact of life that not every relationship lasts the course. According to figures issued by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in June, married couples have only a slightly better chance of remaining together than not. In fact, forty-two per cent of marriages now end in divorce with half of those […]
Read morePublished on 15 August, 2017 | Laura Guillon
There is little doubt that the very concept of divorce can be intimidating. It’s surprising just how widely held the belief is that it consists of a single process, revolving around money and what happens to a couple’s children once their married parents split up. However, there are two very different strands to divorce. The […]
Read morePublished on 11 August, 2017 | Rebekah King
The work of a family lawyer involves great variety. Although the law applied to the work that we do is relatively constant, we find ourselves confronted with very individual matters based on very particular circumstances. Even so, throughout the course of any year, there are seasons, months and even specific dates which coincide with an […]
Read morePublished on | Stephanie Chen
Although it now seems routine, the undoubted fascination of media in divorce is a relatively recent phenomenon. In decades past, marriage splits involving celebrities or royalty were far more likely to cut the mustard with newsdesks. Now, countless column inches are racked up by accounts of couples who – with all due respect – have […]
Read morePublished on 28 July, 2017 | James Brown
One common feature of divorce is how often spouses whose marriages have ended talk about being determined to make the most of the opportunity for a fresh start in life. Of course, that can be easier said than done on many different levels. More than the administration is the emotion, much of which may well […]
Read morePublished on 19 July, 2017 | Claire Reid
Technology, it is said, has made us a more connected world than at any point in our history. It wasn’t so long ago that we marvelled at how air flight has made far-flung parts of the globe easily accessible in little over a century since the Wright brothers first took to the air. Yet, in […]
Read morePublished on 14 July, 2017 | Claire Reid
Among William Shakespeare’s many contributions to the English language, one is his ability to distill acute observations on romance into the kind of pithy phrases which linger long in the individual memory and even longer in the collective vocabulary. In ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’, no less, he remarked that “the course of true love never did […]
Read morePublished on 27 June, 2017 | Andrew Newbury
I would hazard a guess that most married – and, in fact, divorcing – couples are so reasonably occupied with the details of events at home that they think little of their place in history. If that seems a startling opening sentence, allow me to clarify what I mean. At the moment, I believe that […]
Read morePublished on 14 June, 2017 | Andrew Newbury
Marital collapse is, unfortuately, a far from uncommon occurrence. Whenever spouses decide to go their separate ways, there are two essential elements to the divorce process. The first is administrative – the obtaining of decrees nisi and then absolute six weeks or so apart – while the second deals with the delicate division of the […]
Read morePublished on 05 June, 2017 | James Brown
By the end of this week, party political paraphernalia will be packed away again at the end of another General Election campaign. Only a month ago, the result seemed something of a foregone conclusion as Theresa May’s leading the Conservatives to a double-digit opinion poll lead but that has since reportedly shrunk back to only […]
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