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
The divorce rate in districts of China has jumped, reaching one every five minutes in districts of Shanghai, after the Chinese government announced a crackdown on property speculation.
Last Friday the government told local districts to more aggressively enforce existing laws
The government does not plan to change the legal definition of adultery when gay marriage is legalised, according to an official government paper.
Adultery is currently defined legally as taking place between a man and a woman.
There are common misconceptions about adultery & divorce, so here are my ten top adultery myths.
I appeared on This Morning to answer questions about infidelity for the programme’s Divorce Clinic.
I was recently invited to contribute to HuffPost Divorce, where you can now find a slideshow featuring my Top 10 Stereotypical Marriage Wreckers. Some appear to have struck a nerve with readers.
Family lawyers are often reticent to discuss what is really going on in their practices – so Grant Thornton’s Matrimonial Survey provides a welcome opportunity to find out. This annual report from family lawyers, now in its ninth year, has …
I was recently invited to contribute to HuffPost Divorce, where you can now find a slideshow featuring my Top 10 Low-Down Dirtiest Divorce Tricks. Some of them appear to have struck a nerve with readers: of the 278 comments that have been left on …
Lord Justice Munby, the chairman of the Law Commission, who also sits as a judge in the Court Of Appeal (and was one of the judges in Imerman), made a very wise observation last week.
It is often said that the world is now a smaller place, and recent events have had me thinking about this throwaway phrase. In 2010, are we really more of a “global community” than ever before? Yesterday, almost every male in our office was …
Recently I wrote about the “Black Knights” of divorce: those people who won’t face reality but fight on, relentlessly, long after the case has finished. They are few in number but their behaviour is remarkable. Today I would like to consider …
I have noticed that many new visitors arrive at this blog after entering questions about their predicaments into Google. I asked Cheshire divorce lawyer Robin Charrot if he could help out with some answers. how to act in court For most court …
In Lady Worsley’s time, divorce was a privilege of the wealthy. I recently came across an interesting article in the BBC History Magazine about an infamous 18th Century divorce. It brought to mind the recent news about the lady in Dubai who has …
A new French film explores the conduct of a 51-year-old woman who, following the collapse of her marriage, pays for sex with much younger men. Cliente stars well-known French actress Nathalie Baye as the divorcee who seeks to escape from her boring …
Eventually you must make a decision… 1. The mobile phone bill goes missing. If lengthy calls to your lover have sent the telephone bill spiralling upwards, the last thing you want is for your husband to discover that nearly all the calls …
Using a “friend” as a spy is the height of sneakiness… In case you missed it: click here for my earlier countdown of the Top Ten Dirty Divorce Tricks, numbers 10 to 6. Here are numbers 5 to 1: 5. Spending money wildly, as a form …
Technology has moved on – but snooping has reached epidemic proportions. The results of a study, carried out by Oxford University, are printed in today’s Daily Telegraph. Its authors claim that nearly a quarter of all married couples …
Are people who claim to enjoy “no strings attached” liaisons deluding themselves? Is Britain in the grip of an adultery epidemic? Reading Angela Levin’s three-part investigation in The Daily Telegraph, you would think so. …
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