Local and national newspapers are filled with page after page of houses that are failing to sell. Those who don’t have to sell simply aren’t – it is a buyer’s market and the price a seller asks for is unlikely to be what they receive. At Stowe Family Law we are witnessing how the recession-hit [...]
I have written on more than one occasion about “Silver Divorce”: the rise of divorce amongst couples in their 50s and 60s.
For this group, the stigma of divorce has more or less gone. People have greater longevity, financial security and often view retirement as a new beginning, rather than an end. In certain cases, people [...]
The Stowe Family Law offices in Yorkshire and Cheshire are particularly busy at this time of year. I am also spending time in London, seeing clients there and readying our new office in High Holborn. I am making the most of the spare time that I have, immersing myself in things that make me laugh [...]
The latest UK divorce statistics show that a marriage ending in divorce has, on average, lasted 11.7 years. This has given rise to a new term: the “11-year itch”.
So why get married? Because it is still seen as the right thing to do? Because it legitimises children? Because it gives out a strong image of [...]
The trend known as ’silver divorce’ is affecting couples in their sixties who are maybe newly-retired and realising two to three decades ahead of them with the same partner might not be the retirement dream they’d hoped for.
I was interviewed for a feature in The Times, which was published on Saturday 3 November:
Divorce rates are falling – except for people over 60. What is the fallout when Granny and Grandpa split up, asks Celia Dodd
Nowadays, few people raise an eyebrow at the news that another young friend or relative is heading for [...]
Yorkshire Evening Post, 16 October 2007.
LEADING Yorkshire solicitor Marilyn Stowe celebrated her firm’s silver jubilee at York Racecourse.
Top UK divorce lawyer Mrs Stowe’s Harrogate firm, Stowe Family Law LLP, sponsored Rockingham Stakes race won by Max One Two Three.
Mrs Stowe presented the trophy to triumphant jockey Richard Kingscote in a ceremony filmed live for Channel [...]
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I write for the benefit of those who are experiencing family breakdown and for fellow family law professionals. Please note that all persons mentioned in the scenarios are fictitious: details have been deliberately changed in order to protect identities and other confidential circumstances of my clients.
Please also note the advice I give in each scenario must not be relied upon by anyone reading my blog. You must always take your own legal advice as your circumstances may be different and English family law is continually changing.
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