Family

  • Leave to Remove - The Carer's Prerogative?

    LEAVE TO REMOVE – THE CARER’S PREROGATIVE?
    Kim Beatson and Shelley Turrell of Anthony Gold Solicitors

  • Maintenance: Where are we now? A review of recent case law

    Maintenance: Where are we now?” ( first published in Family Law June 2010)
    Margaret Hatwood reviews the recent cases in this rapidly changing area of family law

  • Pre NupsThe Battle Lines are Drawn

    Margaret Hatwood writes - Family lawyers are waiting with bated breath to learn of the Supreme Court Judgment in the Radmacher v Granatino case which is expected before the end of this month. Will this decision signal a move towards binding pre nuptial agreements? Margaret Hatwood partner in Anthony Gold’s family law department comments on this intriguing case

  • Divorce - forum shopping

    Divorce - forum shopping

  • International Aspects of Family Law

    International Aspects of Family Law – It’s a Small World

  • Vaughan v Vaughan: A First Wives Club?

    Margaret Hatwood, Partner - April 2010

    Comment on the barrister’s ex wife case Vaughan v Vaughan: A First Wives Club?

  • The New Face(book) Of Family Law

    Sarah Hughes and Shelley Cumbers - April 2010

    How many of us have been on the telephone to a client and heard the words Facebook, Twitter, or MySpace?

    With the modern trend of social networking, online chat rooms and instant messaging becoming ever popular, it was only a matter of time before family lawyers had to start addressing these issues in their modern day to day working lives.

  • Compensation Culture: The latest McFarlane v McFarlane

    Margaret Hatwood, Partner
    Family Law Journal - January 2010
    In Miller v Miller; McFarlane v McFarlane described as the paradigm case for an award of compensation, the House of Lords said that not only did the court have to have regard to the s 25 Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (MCA 1973) criteria but to three additional strands namely needs, compensation and sharing...

  • Divorce - Forum Shopping

    Kim Beatson and Camilla Fusco, Partners

    Everyone who works with international clients knows that relocating abroad can be a very unsettling experience. The family faces a big task of finding a new home, getting it furnished, settling the children in a new school, coping with a new culture and adjusting to new jobs...

  • Ancillary Relief and the Public/Private Divide

    Somaya Ouazzani
    Family Law Journal - September 2009
    Ancillary relief has for many years seen the courts adjusting the private financial lives of family members: however, it has now begun to look to the public side of that ideological divide...

  • Family Courts Open their Doors

    Victoria Jones, Family Department
    On 27 April 2009 the law changed allowing the media access to family hearings for the first time. Other court rooms have long been open to the press but family courts have always been the exception...

  • Holmes-Moorhouse - The Housing Act and Children Act collide

    Patricia Carr, Solicitor
    This article analyses the decision in the Holmes-Moorhouse case and discusses what advisors for applicants and local authorities should do in the light of the decision...

  • Accurate Costs Estimates: the Reynolds case

    Shelley Cumbers, Solicitor
    Family Law Journal -  January 2009
    In the Queen's Bench Division case Reynolds v Stone Rowe Brewer (A Firm) [2008] EWHC 497, Tugendhat J addressed not only the importance of providing accurate costs estimates for clients from the outset...

  • Haines v Hill: The Division of the Spoils

    Margaret Hatwood
    Family Law Journal - February 2008
    This article looks at the impact of Hill v Haines on financial provision orders, and considers the long-term effects of the case...

  • Funding Ancillary Relief Cases: The New Costs Rules

    Margaret Hatwood
    Family Law Journal - April 2007
    This article looks at the new rules, which apply to those cases where petitions were issued after 3 April 2006...

  • NA v MA: When is an Agreement Not an Agreement?

    Margaret Hatwood
    Family Law Journal - November 2007
    This article aims to review the movement towards a situation where agreements are
    increasingly regarded as binding and hopes to draw practitioners’ attention to possible danger areas...

  • Claiming Benefits and the Civil Partnership Act

    The Civil Partnership Act brings important changes affecting same-sex couples who claim income-related benefits, regardless of whether the couple decide to form a civil partnership. Prior to the Act, people in same sex partnerships were treated as...

  • The Benefits of Civil Partnership

    The Civil Partnership Act brings important changes affecting same-sex couples who claim income-related benefits, regardless of whether the couple decide to form a civil partnership. Prior to the Act, people in same sex partnerships were treated as...

  • Civil Rights and Child Support

    Debra Mo, Partner
    Kehoe represented a valiant attempt to influence the workings of the Child Support Agency, says Debra Mo, but was this worthy case doomed to failure and what means of redress remain?

  • Special Guardianship Orders: A Guide

    Anna Johnstone, Trainee Solicitor
    The new special guardianship provisions, provided for in the Adoption and Children Act 2002 (the Act), came into force on 30 December 2005. Section 115 of the Act introduces a new legal status for non parents who are or wish to care for children in a long term, secure placement...

  • Beneath the Parlour Divorce Hype

    Kim Beatson, Partner   Arsenal footballer Ray Parlour has been ordered to pay his ex-wife Karen a third of his future earnings in a landmark divorce settlement, which has sparked a national debate about marriage. A lawyer unpacks the hype - and...

  • For a child - friendly Christmas go easy on the brussels

    Kim Beatson, Partner One serving of sprouts at Christmas is more than enough for any child. That's the advice from campaigning family law group Resolution, who warn that live-apart couples need to plan with extra special care to make Christmas a great time...

  • Equitable Accounting

    Kim Beatson, Partner and Shelley Turrell, Trainee Solicitor Your TOLATA (Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996) proceedings have almost reached conclusion. The Judge has considered whether the Applicant has acted to his detriment, made direct...

  • Civil Partnership Act 2004 - Gay Marriage

    Kim Beatson, Partner The introduction of the Civil Partnership Act on 5 December 2005, offers to same-sex couples the opportunity of registering their relationship and thereby obtaining rights and obligations broadly equivalent to those of married couples....

  • Civil Partnership Act 2004: Housing Related Rights for Gay and Lesbian Couples

    Yannis Constantine, Trainee Solicitor, Anthony Gold   Introduction On 05 December 2006, it will be one year since the introduction of the Civil Partnership Act (‘CPA’) 2004. The CPA is a landmark piece of legislation that removes...
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