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
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
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
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.
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.
R (T) v Legal Aid Agency concerned a family of Bangladeshi origin. The six children were
A woman has failed in her bid to revisit a provisional divorce settlement after a judge ruled that undisclosed details would not have affected the case.
S v S concerned a couple who married in 1993 and had three children together before parting in 2010. The family was wealthy and after they separated the wife applied for a
A wealthy Russian businessman has lost a four year legal tussle with his ex-wife over their London home.
The home, in South Kensington was jointly purchased by Vladimir Slutsker and his similarly wealthy wife Olga in 2000, via an offshore trust account, so their son Misha
An unnamed woman received a five year prison sentence after forcing her adopted teenage daughter to become pregnant on her behalf.
The woman, who had undergone voluntary sterilisation, had already adopted three
The High Court has ruled against testing two young children for Huntington’s Disease in order to improve their chances of adoption.
Re Y and Z (Minors) concerned two children, now aged three and two, who had been
A man who only discovered that he had a son when the boy was four has been denied the chance to raise him.
His paternity was only discovered when the man’s sister saw a picture of the child, called C in case reports, and thought she saw a resemblance. A DNA test later confirmed that the boy was his
High Court judge Mr Justice Baker has hailed the importance of specialist family solicitors and barristers.
Speaking at the conclusion of a case in which he had dismissed an application for care orders by Devon County Council, the judge noted the level of specialist knowledge
Financier Ben Goldsmith was granted a divorce in a one minute hearing a the High Court in London earlier today.
The 32 year-old son of late billionaire Sir James Goldsmith filed for divorce from wife Kate Rothschild last year following allegations that she had had an affair with US rapper
A father has won his appeal against a ruling that he should not be given parental responsibility for a child due to the mother’s anxieties about contact.
W (Children) concerned a former couple who had split up during her pregnancy. Their
The founder of green energy company Ecotricity is fighting a claim for maintenance from the wife he divorced more than 20 years ago.
Dale Vince, now 51, founded the successful wind energy supplier in 1995, three years after completing his divorce from Kathleen Wyatt. The company, based in in Stroud,
A woman has failed in her application for maintenance from the husband she divorced almost 20 years ago.
T v T concerned a couple who married in 1985, when both were in their early 20s. They had one child, now of university age, but the couple separated in 1991.
A British woman who emigrated to Canada has won a legal victory over her estranged husband, after he abducted their children and took them back to the UK.
The case of FT and NT (Children) concerned a couple who married in 2007. They
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
In a recently published judgement, a wife was granted permission to appeal the divorce settlement ordered by a district judge.
She had been granted the majority of the financial capital owned by the former couple, as well as orders for periodical (regular) payments and child maintenance.
High Court judge Mr Justice Cobb has told parents who fear their child will be taken into care that Ireland cannot provide ‘sanctuary’.
Ruling in the case of an English mother who had crossed the Irish Sea to try and escape care proceedings, the judge noted:
Six children born to poverty-stricken parents from Slovakia have been taken into care after a local authority claimed they had suffered from chronic neglect.
In LA vs DG and Others, the couple had moved to the UK but then struggled to obtain
In an unusual case, the High Court has declared that a baby born in the UK to Slovakian parents is not ‘habitually resident’ in either country.
In Re T, a 16 year-old girl from the eastern European country had been placed in a mother
The former partner of a successful musician has failed in her bid for maintenance after their daughter moved to live with her father.
In N v C, the girl, now 12, had been living with her mother but went to live with her father
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