Earlier today I appeared on BBC Radio 4 show Woman’s Hour. I am always delighted to receive an invitation to appear on this iconic show. Women have been debating and discussing the finer points of their lives on this radio institution since 1946!
This morning’s topic was civil partnerships and whether they should be extended to
Is living apart the new being together? Quite possibly, if a new university study is anything to go by.
It is a detailed look at a social phenomenon which has been dubbed ‘living apart together’ – that is to say, couples who form relationships but do not move in together. Apparently an extraordinary nine per cent of British adults are involved in such relationships.
In the first case of its kind since 1995, the parental rights of a man have been terminated by the High Court after he was imprisoned for sexual abuse.
CW v SG concerned an unmarried couple who had a child together, referred to in case
A newly introduced cap on benefits could encourage couples to separate, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has warned.
From today, families claiming benefits in London boroughs of Haringey, Croydon, Bromley and Enfield can claim a maximum of £500 per week, while single people can
A married mechanic from Topeka in Kansas is being sued for $6,000 in backdated child support after donating sperm to a lesbian couple.
William Marotta responded an advertisement on listings website Craigslist three years seeking sperm donors. It was placed by same sex couple Jennifer Schreiner and Angela Bauer. Marotta refused the $50 fee they offered and signed an agreement waiving all
Divorce rates in Canada have dropped eight per cent since 2006, according to new figures from government agency Statistics Canada. 
A senior family law judge has accused the government of excessive preoccupation with gay marriage.
Baroness Butler-Sloss is a former President of the Family Division of the High Court and a leading legal authority. She told the Telegraph that the government should be more concerned
Any family lawyer who has chalked up a few years in the profession will be very aware of one particular social trend of recent decades: the rise of cohabitation, and this is certainly a subject I have written about more than once.
The number of people in the UK cohabiting rather than tying the knot has more than doubled in a decade, according in to recent figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). One in six couples now live together – an enormous leap from the 1960s when
A successful footballer playing for a UK team has been ordered to help the mother of his child in Africa move into more secure accommodation.
The mother had returned to her home country after the end of her relationship with the father. She and the four year old child now shared a room in her parents’ small bungalow.
The mother’s annual income contrasted of approximately £13,000 contrasted with the
The High Court has granted a parental order to a same sex couple from the US who conceived a child through a surrogacy clinic in India.
In Re A and B, the male partners had met and lived together in California, before moving
Sociologist Dr Patricia Morgan has claimed that the legalisation of gay marriage will accelerate the decline of heterosexual marriage by breaking the cultural link between marriage and parenthood.
She made the claims in a lengthy submission
R&B singer and producer Ne-Yo has revealed that he got married at 19 but the couple split up after less than a year.
The singer, now 30, told celebrity site TMZ: “Wait, actually, yeah, when I was like 19. It wasn’t even for like a year. It isn’t well known because nobody really asked.”
The relationship ended in divorce, he said, when his former partner insisted he choose between her and
There will have been many family lawyers who were eagerly awaiting the decision that was handed down in the case of Whigham v Owen last week, and who will be carefully dissecting every word of Lord Drummond Young’s opinion. After all, it is the first reported
The unmarried former partner of wealthy businessman Steve Owen has been awarded a record payout by the Scottish courts.
Jacqueline Whigham was granted £250,000 by Scotland’s highest civil court, the Court of Session
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