It has almost been a month since the biggest change to divorce law in decades with divorce applications soaring by over 50% in the first week of the “no fault” law being introduced on 6 April…
The Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Bill will be introduced on 6 April 2022, this is fantastic news for family law as the last major divorce reform was over 50 years ago! What are the changes?…
Will my business be part of a divorce settlement? In short, yes. In the majority of cases, the business and its value are included within the assets which the Court will consider during a divorce…
Compensation a topical headline in the press, for example you may have heard the phrase “Compensation Culture”. However, often compensation is found to be misunderstood. We are expanding on our previous post about compensation to…
Compensation pay-outs are not ‘windfalls’ and those who are injured do not ‘win’ anything. Compensation is there to help those rebuild their lives who have been injured because of someone’s negligence. Compensation is split into…
It’s Not Just Physical… We are continuing to support APIL’s Rebuilding Shattered Lives campaign. There are some psychiatric injuries that can follow from a traumatic event, such as a physical injury from an accident. Some…
The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) is a not-for-profit organisation that represents injured people. They run several campaigns to represent those who have suffered as a result of someone’s negligence in parliament and the…
When relationships break down, contact arrangements for children often need to be agreed. Whilst this mostly affects the parents of the children, it can also affect the wider relatives such as grandparents, many of…
Good Divorce Week is an annual campaign which this year runs between 29 November & 3 December. It is organised by Resolution, a community of family justice professionals who work with families and individuals to…
Pensions on Divorce Legislation was passed in 2000 allowing pensions to be split, or to be transferred from one spouse to another, or “shared” as the Court defines it, upon divorce. Even though this legislation…
