Since writing this column I have discovered that there will be less than 100 mediators qualified to undertake these assessments by April 6th. To place that figure in context, there were 126,496 divorces in 2009. I also mention in the piece that mediation should come later. One possibility is that there shouldn’t be a Financial Dispute Resolution (FDR) hearing until an assessment for …
From my latest Solicitors Journal column “Family Business”, 22/02/2011. Divorced from reality Fresh from an Oxbridge eye-opener, Marilyn Stowe wonders how stuck in the past the future will be. It …
This week I received a very nice email from a trainee solicitor in South Yorkshire who had read my post Justice with Courage: doing the legal laundry, and was enthused by it. It was very kind of him …
From my latest Solicitors Journal column “Family Business”, 18/01/2011. Tainted Love Here’s hoping this year’s fresh Family Proceedings Rules sort out this maddening self-help situation, says Marilyn Stowe Up and down the country, family …
As we gallop towards the end of 2010 my thoughts have turned to just what has happened over the past 12 months. In particular, which has been the “stand out” family law case of this year? My …
This is an expanded version of my latest Family Business column in Solicitors Journal. Darkness is cheap A family solicitor’s Christmas Carol, by Marilyn Stowe Christmas is now upon us and another year has flown by. Last night we sat in our little “snug room”, watching the snow fall outside and musing upon the past 12 months. My husband is a fellow solicitor and the head of a legal aid …
Does it sometimes seem as if the very richest people think that wealth buys them immunity to say, do and act exactly as they please? The New York billionaire Leona Helmsley was nicknamed “The Queen of Mean” and once said, famously, that “only the little people pay taxes”. Those words came back to haunt her. She discovered that in the eyes of a US court, she was a “little person” too …
So it has finally happened. The new Millennium began with a bang in the form of the White v White case, and ten years later we’ve started the new decade with a similarly momentous development …
Children tend to cause more problems than any other area of family law. Few areas change so much, or are as nuanced and complex. I’ve recently read a wealth of legal articles and cases that …
Earlier this week I appeared on BBC Radio Four’s popular PM programme to discuss a speech made by the President of the Family Division, Lord Justice Wall, to Families Need Fathers. Certain remarks of his …
Cuts to family law legal aid, prenuptial agreements, Tchenguiz v Imerman… Regular readers will have noted that I hold some strong views about the latest family law developments and their …
From the Opinion pages of the Yorkshire Post, 10/08/2010. We must help the grandparents hit by divorce By Marilyn Stowe AFTER more than 25 years in family law, I am not easily shocked. However the plight of many grandparents, within a legal system that downgrades their contribution to family life and denies them automatic rights of contact with their grandchildren, has never ceased to …
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