Does Mother know best?
Matching parents’ wishes with your own evolutionary desires Conflicts between parents and their children about the choice of a partner is a tried-and-tested literary device – from Mrs Bennett’s lamentations about Elizabeth’s …
Archive for April 2008
Faith, family and divorce
On Saturday night, millions of Jewish people around the world will sit down to a festive dinner called the "Seder", to celebrate the beginning of the eight days of Passover. It is an opportunity for the whole family to gather round the dinner table and retell the biblical story of Moses.
A question of trusts
A trust is an investment – so is sound advice. Trusts are, without a doubt, bêtes noires for many family lawyers . A client attending a first meeting will expect clear answers, not waffle, particularly if he or she is the beneficiary of a …
Computers, mobiles and the divorce detectives
Technology has moved on – but snooping has reached epidemic proportions. The results of a study, carried out by Oxford University, are printed in today’s Daily Telegraph. Its authors claim that nearly a quarter of all married couples …
Happy families: what’s the secret?
How many parents really understand what their children want and what they need? Perhaps it was my reaction to the McCartney divorce that prompted me to take some time out for a week’s vacation with my son. At the request of a journalist, I …
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CKFT v Minkin: counting the costs and the lessons learned. By guest blogger Eleanor Webster
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