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 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
The number of family disputes referred to the Head of International Family Justice for England and Wales has almost quadrupled in four years, according to new figures.
Referrals increased from 65 in 2008 to 253 during 2012, the judge’s office reports.
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 mother has lost her appeal against an order prohibiting contact between her and her newborn baby.
In W (A Child), a local authority had applied for the order under section 34(4) of the Children Act 1989. This states that:
The Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal by a stepfather accused of sexual abuse.
In A-H (Children), a 13 year-old girl claimed she had been sexually abused by the man for the previous two years. A paediatric examination supported her claims and in March
A husband has failed in his bid to appeal a divorce with a “complex and highly unusual history”.
Mark Howell had sought permission to appeal a ruling that his marriage had “irretrievably broken down” by Judge Horowitz QC last December. Mr Howell and his
The recent case of Re RC and JC concerned the abduction of two young children aged two and three.
The mother was Australian while the father is British by birth but is a permanent resident of Australia. The parties married in Australia and lived in Melbourne until 2010 when they returned to
A property investor whose wife divorced him after an argument over map reading has been refused permission to appeal an order granting her a divorce.
Mark Howell, from Kennington in south London, rowed with his wife Nalini during a
The Ministry of Justice has published a 56 page practice guide for the 1996 Hague Convention on Child Protection.
Formally known as the ‘Hague Convention on Parental Responsibility and Protection of Children’, the 1996 convention deals with civil measures for the protection of children
Last month we reported on the plight of Leeds mum Naomi Button, who is campaigning to find her missing daughter Elsa.
Elsa was abducted by her father, Egyptian Tamer Salama, during a visit to Sharm El Sheikh
The Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal from two parents who lost custody of their children following abuse.
In Re M, the couple’s four children were removed from the family home after abuse described as ‘torture’ in case documents. The children were placed in care and the local
The Court of Appeal has sent a contact case back to the original court with instructions for a Cafcass report to be fully considered.
In Re YM, contact between a father and his child had been suspended due to concerns about
A new judgement delivered by Mrs Justice Baron, sitting with Lord Justices Thorpe and Kitchin, was published by the Court of Appeal yesterday. It involves a relatively small sum of money, but also some tricky money-based family law.
The Money and Property Committee of the Family Justice Council has published new best practice guidance for financial dispute resolution (FDR) appointments.
The guidance, which features a foreword by the renowned Lord Justice Thorpe, was
Multi-millionaire hotelier Andrew Morris Davies has failed in his bid to cut the £2.75 million awarded to his ex-wife Debra by Judge Martin O’Dwyer in August 2011.
Sitting at the Court of Appeal, Lord Justices Thorpe, Elias and Rimer dismissed Mr Davies’
In a recently published judgement the Court of Appeal has allowed the appeal of a Saudi man against a ruling that a ceremony at a London hotel was a valid marriage under English law.
The ceremony took place in 1994. According to Lord Justice Thorpe’s judgement, this
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Spousal maintenance is the most contentious area in family finance. Ex-husbands bitterly resent paying it and ex-wives fight tooth and nail to keep it. It is a tax-free income that some see as a continuing windfall and others a hard-earned necessity.
Today I have returned to the office after a fortnight’s holiday in Italy. I haven’t taken such a lengthy break in a couple of years. We spent a week away at Easter, but for me the time was overshadowed by a tragic event. It also turned to be a …
My recent post about external relocation sparked an interesting debate, and it became clear that there are many readers who have personal experience of this subject – and strong feelings about it.
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