Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme enforced 5th April 2017 A man who subjected two former partners to extreme domestic violence has become the first person in the country to […] Categories: Domestic Abuse
Making Sense of the Brexit Divorce 3rd April 2017 A perspective from a family lawyer Norman Hartnell MD of The Family Law Company by Hartnell Chanot Exeter and Plymouth […] Categories: Uncategorized
Marrying later in life 28th March 2017 On 14 March 2017 the office of National Statistics released the latest marriage data regarding couples marrying in England […] Categories: Pre-Nuptial and Cohabitation Agreements
No fault, no foul? 27th March 2017 Last week in the much reported and discussed case of Owens v Owens, the Court of Appeal upheld the original […] Categories: Divorce & Separation
Children in need being failed by social care system 22nd March 2017 Vanessa Pridis looks at a new report on the failure of the system to keep pace with rising numbers of […] Categories: Children Law and Social Services Intervention
Court rules against heterosexual couple seeking civil partnership 22nd February 2017 The Court has ruled against a heterosexual couple seeking to enter into a Civil Partnership instead of a marriage. Rebecca […] Categories: Uncategorized
Cohabitees pension rights on death 15th February 2017 Denise Brewster lived in an unmarried relationship for 10 years with Lenny McMullen until Mr McMullen’s death on Boxing Day […] Categories: Pre-Nuptial and Cohabitation Agreements
Guiding learning disabled parents through the child protection process 31st January 2017 For any parent, finding social services involved with their children, and facing the prospect of going to Court, is very […] Categories: Children Law and Social Services Intervention
Adoption explained 30th January 2017 At the end of last year the government announced that adoptions had fallen drastically by 12%. Many reasons were given […] Categories: Adoption
Surrogacy and the law 27th January 2017 In the news recently it was announced that the latest addition to an aristocratic English family had been born by […] Categories: Surrogacy