Cambridge Family Law Practice https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Emma Wager Gail Marchant-Daisley Kathryn Evans Jeremy Ford Tricia Ashton Simon Bethel Adam Moghadas When can a father give up his own parental responsibility? The Family Court’s approach in A Father v A Mother [2025] EWFC 524 Surrogacy payments and parental orders: welfare comes first Contact Family court judge stood firm on penalties for wife who submitted document late ‘Experts’ and alienating behaviours Reviewing the Government’s plans to repeal presumption of ‘parental involvement’. Presumption of parenthood can be revoked, High Court confirmed Rise in court applications concerning children born through surrogacy from older couples Father jailed for repeatedly breaching court orders A focus on Adam Moghadas in his role as a White Ribbon ambassador Arbitration The law relating to children brought from abroad for the purposes of adoption Supreme Court rules against wife in tax planning dispute High Court highlights confidentiality of financial dispute resolution meetings Third largest divorce settlement in the UK clarifies the law relating to nuptial agreements Child maintenance in cases of higher income and shared care arrangements New official guidance on covert recordings Rare Hadkinson order issued against businessman in contempt of court Mother allowed to discuss her family court experiences Court ‘cancels’ property lease to enable financial settlement Parental order issued despite disengaged mother Listed father not legal father of twins, family court finds Baby should return to France with his mother, court rules Family court ‘must accept valuation of art business’ Consideration given to pre and post relationship financial efforts by a party to financial remedy proceedings The Supreme Court considers the classification of matrimonial and non-matrimonial assets this week The Family Court has issued a final order of divorce to a couple who spent more than a year attempting to reconcile during the divorce proceedings. Court of Appeal allows father’s application for the return of his daughter Call for “wholesale reform” of adoption law Who we are Bereaved mother cannot use daughter’s eggs to conceive grandchild Adoption order made in favour of UK woman in respect of a child from Morocco despite a technical breach of the law Increase in value of company did not undermine divorce agreement, Judge rules Judge respects children’s wishes not to see mother Couple granted parental status after surrogate suffers brain damage during birth Parental order issued despite death of one parent Callum Neill Law on divorce finances ‘needs reform’ Mediation Family Court reporting to be spotlighted in November Confidentiality remains the starting point in family law applications, Judge confirms “Litigation misconduct” earns estranged wife lower settlement Home