This is a slightly expanded version of my latest post for The Times, which appears on The Experts blog today. In 2005, the Government asked the Law Commission to report on possible changes to the law in relation to cohabitation. Two years later, …
With the events of my great weekend at Wembley recorded on this blog, some people have asked me about the non-appearance of my husband. Was he at Wembley too?
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.
Journalist Anna Moore wrote a feature for The Times, “She's alpha at work but she's bullied in the home”, in which she quotes me about my experiences of clients involved in such relationships. The client is a high achiever but is still bullied at home by a dominant spouse.
This week the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission (CMEC) published its annual report and accounts for 2010/11. Earlier this month the Work and Pensions Select Committee published its proposed child maintenance reforms.
The Times reports that radical reform of the selection of judges is needed to break the stranglehold of white Oxbridge males at the top of the judiciary. The report notes that in the past ten years, not a single solicitor has been appointed directly to the High Court.
This is my latest post for The Times, which appears on The Experts blog today. What was really happening on Tuesday? Was Ken Clarke’s sentencing policy truly in tatters? Did his proposals ever stand a chance of implementation? Surely not. So …
This is an expanded version of my latest post for The Times, which appears on The Experts blog today. I was doing some work for the Law Society. I travelled to a small Midlands town, to a high street lawyer’s office next to a greasy spoon cafe. I …
This is an expanded version of my latest post for The Times, which appears on The Experts blog today. Marilyn Stowe As a family lawyer, I am accustomed to representing men and women whose lives have been turned upside down after relationships have …
Marilyn Stowe I chuckled when I read that the Bar Standards Board has given its approval to removing the prohibition on barristers conducting litigation work. If barristers offer litigation services, competing alongside solicitors, I think …
Why I think grandparents’ legal rights are fit for purpose by guest blogger David Milburn
Q&A on finances and divorce with Marilyn Stowe – Wednesday February 8th
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Holocaust Memorial Day: why we must all protect our culture of tolerance
Marathon woman (From Solicitors Journal)
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