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Back to school blues
The long school holidays are drawing to a close and everywhere seems to be awash with essential “back to school” items. The summer holidays, and the financial, emotional and time demands of balancing childcare with employment and trips away, can be a time of great stress on families and relationships. Sadly, our realities don’t always live up to the idealised... more >
Un-adoption? Is that possible?
An adoption order is a life-changing thing. It severs a child’s legal ties with their birth family, and instead makes them legally the child of the adoptive parents, with all rights and responsibilities transferred to the new family. Due to the draconian nature of cutting ties with the biological family, orders are only made by a court after careful scrutiny... more >
Removing gender bias
There are few overt bastions of gender discrimination left in the country today. Perhaps a few of the more traditional gentlemen’s clubs remain of the view that ladies should not be admitted, and it was only last year that the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrew’s admitted those of the female persuasion to its ranks. In CFLP’s world,... more >
Changing circumstances
Usually when a former couple is going through financial negotiations or litigation after divorce, the finishing post is the sealing by the court of the order setting out their financial arrangements. Once the ink on the court stamp is dry, all that normally follows is to put its terms into effect, and the family can move on from the stress... more >
Our Adam in the Telegraph
As CFLP blogging is taking a break next week, we thought we'd leave you with a link to the Telegraph's Story, "Divorced at 60: I regret staying with my husband" in which CFLP's partner Adam Moghadas is quoted extensively, as follows: Adam Moghadas, a partner at the Cambridge Family Law Practice, has seen a rise in the number of older people coming... more >
When 100% is a fair division of assets
Family lawyers are always talking about fairness, and what that means. Sometimes it means equality and equal sharing of a couple’s assets, sometimes is means an unequal split to balance capital and income and to try to meet everyone’s needs, but rarely does fairness require one party to get everything. You may have seen the coverage in the press in... more >