German women who conceive using anonymous sperm donors should no longer receive child support from the state, a court has ruled.
A woman who became pregnant via anonymous donation in Denmark has been refused child support by a Leipzig court – because the state would have no way of recovering the money.
The woman gave birth to a boy in 2005 and would normally be entitled to child
The residents of Belmont, Massachusetts, will enjoy free ice cream and music today in the state’s only continuously held celebration of gay marriage.
Locals will come together on the town green for the annual Freedom To Marry Ice Cream Social. This year’s event marks the 9th anniversary of the day Massachusetts became the first US state in the country – and only the sixth jurisdiction in the world – to
A husband from Kashmir in India has failed in a bid to divorce his wife because he could not prove that she had deserted him.
When the biotechnology researcher filed for divorce from his wife of 11 years, he claimed that she had been cruel, refused to cooperate with fertility treatments and then
The Ministry of Justice has announced plans to cut the amount of expert witness testimony in family courts.
The department claims too many expert witnesses are paid to provide evidence of limited value. It claims that almost 90 per cent of care cases currently include expert witness
A UK couple have been declared innocent of any wrongdoing by the High Court after they fell victim to a fertility clinic scam.
In the second case of its kind presided over by Mr Justice Coleridge, the couple had been referred to the Miracle of God Fertility Clinic in Port Harcourt, Nigeria after eight years of unsuccessful fertility treatment. They travelled to the country and paid £12,000 for
In recent months this column has chronicled the travails, opportunities and challenges faced by our profession in 2013 and beyond. In truth, the future faced by high street firms continues to give me cause for concern. Lack of confidence in the economy, an axe-happy government and 'Tesco Law' have
Last month Cafcass received more than 900 applications for care places, a jump of 20 per cent on the same month last year.
The total (908) is the high number ever received by the agency during April.
In the entire year to March, Cafcass received just over 11,000 care applications – eight
The Home Office broke the law when it refused to grant foreign children living in the UK permission to remain permanently, despite having previously given them temporary leave.
High Court judge Mr Justice Holman has ruled that by only granting the children ‘discretionary leave’ and refusing longer term ‘indefinite leave to remain’, the government failed to consider the youngsters’ welfare or best interests. They had been left in limbo. Previous Supreme Court rulings had, he declared, clearly established that children’s
A new criminal offence of forced marriage will be included in the recently announced Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill
The new measures will also make breaching forced marriage protection orders a a specific criminal offence. Potential victims will also enjoy new protection from exploitation and authorities will be required to focus on prevention.
Many a man battling maintenance claims from former wives will cheer at a Court of Appeal. ruling released today.
A former aid worker who attempted to claim maintenance from the now wealthy husband she divorced more than twenty years ago has lost her case. In an unanimous ruling, the
A mother serving a three year sentence for burglary has won an appeal against a ruling that her youngest child should be taken into care.
In Re L (A Child), the woman’s two older children had already been removed from her
Have you ever wondered why Lady Justice carries a sword as well as the scales of truth? Lady Justice is that symbolic, blindfolded figure seen in many courtroom statues, such as the one which famously looms over the Old Bailey in central London.
Apparently the sword is there to represent the coercive power of the legal system – that
A decision by the Legal Aid Agency to refuse full funding for a psychologist’s report in a care case involving six children has been quashed by the High Court. 
A Bulgarian national has been refused permission to appeal a court ruling that overseas divorce proceedings should not be recognised. in the UK.
Yordanova and Iordanov concerned the marriage of the man to a Russian woman at the
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