Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council has apologised for its handing of the decision to remove three foster children from a UKIP-supporting couple.
Following a review of the controversial incident, the Council concluded that removal was in the best interests of the Eastern European children, but the decision was poorly
The Japanese parliament has approved plans to join the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.
Earlier today, the upper house of the National Diet (parliament) unanimously approved plans to join the international treaty. The Convention allows children who have been abducted by parents from one participating country into another to be quickly returned to
Earlier today I returned to the London studios of ITV This Morning for my regular phone-in legal clinic. Today’s topic was one of the hardy perennials of divorce law: property.
As ever, it was a lively session, with viewers ringing in from round the country for
Older divorcees are driving up house prices, actress Penelope Keith has claimed.
The star of legendary Seventies sitcom The Good Life believes affluent couples who split in their 50s and 60s are inflating property prices by buying flats and smaller homes after
A woman sharing a home with her lesbian partner must leave due to a divorce morality clause, a Texas judge has ruled.
Collin County District Judge John Roach Jr ordered Page Price to leave the home she shares with partner Carolyn Compton and the latter’s two children, aged ten and 13.
Compton and her former husband Joshua had a so-called ‘morality clause’ included in their
Plans to increase the child maintenance payment charged to parents on unemployment benefit are ‘grossly unfair’, a charity has claimed. 
A mother with learning difficulties has been allowed to keep her child after demonstrating progress in social work assessments.
In Re J (A Child), the local authority had placed the mother under assessment in supported accommodation due to concerns about her ability to care for the boy, then
Film star Arnold Schwarzenegger and estranged wife Maria Shriver are “in no hurry to divorce”, TMZ reports.
Schwarzenegger separated from the journalist and author in May 2011, after 25 years, but the couple have yet to begin divorce proceedings. According to the site, the Hollywood couple see no reason to rush to the courts as they have already worked out custody arrangements relating to their four children and agreed to split their $400 million fortune 50-50.
A mother who discovered that her former partner had a rape conviction after they separated has won an appeal against extended contact arrangements.
In A (a child), the couple had separated after what was described as “rather volatile relationship involving heated rows, verbal abuse and some physical confrontation.” They had a son together, now aged four.
Singer-songwriter Katie Waissel has released a song about her brief marriage to male model Brad Alphonso.
The 27 year-old Briton married Alphonso in September last year, only four months after the couple met. But the marriage lasted just two months before dissolving into a series of
Divorce has become the ‘norm’ and ‘so easy’, claims actress Alison Steadman.
Speaking at the launch of a new TV drama about the break-up of a retired couple, the 66 year-old TV and film veteran said she hoped younger people would think twice before
The government last night defeated a Tory rebellion over gay marriage legislation after striking a deal with the Labour Party.
MPs gathered in the Commons last night to vote on an amendment to the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill, tabled to MP Tim Loughton, which would have extended civil partnerships to heterosexual couples and had attracted widespread support. According to
A debate in the Afghan parliament on domestic violence legislation has been halted amidst angry scenes. 
The number of parents paying for their children through the Child Support Agency (CSA) has hit a record high, the government has claimed.
Four in four parents involved with the CSA now pay for their children voluntarily,
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