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Time to think?
Happy new year, reader– we hope 2016 is a peaceful one for you and your family. We’ve been pleased to see that there hasn’t been too much of the ‘divorce day, huge spike in calls to family lawyers’ media nonsense as everyone returns to work and school this year. Perhaps this is in part because of Resolution’s refusal to engage... more >
Wedding bells
We thought we’d shift the emphasis this week from family breakdown to family formation by taking a look at marriage. The Law Commission – the civil service body that researches, considers and recommends changes to statute law in this country – has just released a scoping paper “Getting Married”, on the formalities required to contract a valid marriage in England... more >
Coping with a separate Christmas
This week we bring you a guest blog by our friend Suzy Ashworth, a local family mediator, coach and counsellor. — Christmas – time of joy, peace and love, filled with the sounds of choirs of angels and the laughter of happy children? Or a dreaded season of stress, grief, and hard work? Some of us will have a festive time... more >
Brits abroad – how long is the law’s long arm?
The law reports this week are again peppered with cases where children are caught up in international disputes between their parents. As the world becomes ever smaller and we increasingly form relationships with partners from different backgrounds, different cultures and different countries, it sometimes seems that the law struggles to catch up. For us lawyers, it is interesting to watch... more >
It’s that time again…
… no, not Christmas – although that does indeed appear to be the case – but time to look at the annual Grant Thornton survey of matrimonial lawyers, which is said to reveal the ‘hot topics’ exercising our profession at the moment. Representatives of the accountancy firm asked 77 of the nation’s ‘top lawyers’ (including some of ours, of course)... more >
#ChildrenFirst
It’s Resolution’s National Dispute Resolution Week, and this year the focus is on putting children first during family breakdown. We thought we’d take a look at some of the key findings from the research they have commissioned on how families are dealing with divorce and separation today, and think about the best ways to protect and support children through the... more >