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 weekend. The report recommends a compulsory, three-month “cooling off” period for couples who were set upon divorce. It proposes the founding of “family relationship hubs”: a …
John Bolch, solicitor and author of the popular Family Lore blog, invited me to contribute to the latest edition of his Family Lore podcast. This was my first foray into podcasting – and I …
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 …
Much has been written by Marilyn Stowe about cohabiting couples' rights. I recently helped a client whose problems could form an exam question on cohabitation.
Divorce the second time around: The case of MD v D (2008) EWHC 1929 is a salutary reminder of the financial pitfalls of a short marriage between older couples.
With a headline of “Men become richer after divorce” adorning a page in the Observer recently, I felt compelled to write a response to Amelia Hill’s article, which was published this weekend on the paper’s letters page. The initial piece was based upon research carried out by Professor Stephen Jenkins, a director of the Institute for Social and Economic Research and chair …
Compared to England and Wales, Scotland is an idyll for unmarried couples. But is change on the horizon? In 2006 the Family Law (Scotland) Act became the first major legislation in the UK to secure unmarried couples’ rights. It does not seek to give separating cohabitants the same rights as divorcing spouses. Instead, it aims to provide a limited version of the same. The legislation …
Marilyn Stowe writes: As previously noted on this blog, the Government’s response to calls for more rights for unmarried couples has been sluggish. The Scottish Parliament, meanwhile, has taken …
Proposals were issued on Monday by the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) in relation to future family law reform, which have been touted as likely Conservative Party policy after the next election. The …
Proposed legal rights for cohabitants have one reader reaching for the panic button. As regular readers are aware, I hold strong views about the Government’s reluctance to introduce new legislation for cohabiting couples. I believe that …
Cut the red tape: why won’t politicians help cohabiting couples? I saw Baroness Thatcher on TV three times this weekend. I saw her twice on the Spitting Image reruns and laughed at the …
It is worrying that so few cohabitants have taken steps to safeguard their positions. Cohabitation remains a popular choice of relationship in Britain. More than one third of people (36 per cent) have cohabited in the past, and one in nine (11 per cent) do so at present. Unfortunately, my office is frequently consulted by an increasing number of cohabitants who have learned, to their great …
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