In the last post about coping with divorce, I wrote about how distressing the divorce process can be and how, to emerge whole at the other side, it is vitally important to do whatever it takes to keep your mind in shape. This post is a cautionary one, about what can happen if you give in to those demons lurking in your head. I have previously written about the dirty divorce tricks born of the …
Cafcass, which stands for Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service, was coined by the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act in April 2001. A public body, Cafcass looks after the …
Unless both parents consent to a child’s relocation from one country to another, such a move can be considered international child abduction. But when a relationship ends, it is tempting to …
Dirk Lindner’s edgy portrait of Jean-Christophe Novelli and Novelli’s daughter Christina caught my eye as I was scanning The Sunday Times Magazine yesterday. I began to read the interview and I was soon hooked. It was a cracking piece, …
Every Family Matters, a report prepared for the Conservative Party by Iain Duncan Smith’s ‘Centre for Social Justice’ think tank, received a good deal of press attention at the …
Earlier this week Sir Paul Coleridge, who sits as a High Court judge in Central London, spoke out about family breakdown. His speech has been widely published: I read about it in the Daily Mail and The Daily Telegraph. He talked about his sadness and frustration at the volume of family breakdowns, with lawyers warning that the family courts are “overstretched to the point of …
Many of my clients place their children's needs before their own. But I have seen many people who, when they are divorcing, struggle to get past their own needs
Hindsight is a wonderful thing My last post concerned a court case which turned into a disaster. My colleagues in our Children’s Department have told me that in these complex cases, the court …
Children are far stronger than we give them credit for Yesterday, I read an article in the Sunday Times that ruined my otherwise very pleasant day. The piece by Daniel Foggo concerned a mother who …
Wives and mothers usually wish to remain in the marital home – but it isn’t always a good idea to postpone a sale. A Mesher order is a court order that postpones the sale of the marital home and gives a chargeback to a husband …
Earlier this month I recorded a programme for BBC Radio 4′s More or Less programme about the so-called ‘Divorce D-Day’: the first Monday back to work in January, when divorce …
Our transnational work continues to grow- this week on consecutive days, our solicitors, Angela Stephenson and Frank Arndt successfully attended court in London in two separate jurisdiction cases. The whereabouts (or jurisdiction) of a divorce can often impact on the financial settlement between the divorcing couples because differing laws will be applied in different countries. Our firm’s …
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