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New law extends birth registration rights to female couples

New law extends birth registration rights to female couples ...read more

Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships to open new premises in central London

Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships to open new premises in central London ...read more

Sharing excess income: compensation for lost careers

Sharing excess income: compensation for lost careers ...read more

Madonna's Divorce : Hazel Wright speaks to the Sunday Times

It was shaping up to be the greatest battle since Macca versus Mucca. When Madonna and Guy Ritchie announced they were divorcing a month ago the diary columns and showbiz blogs... ...read more

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In the first part of a two-part analysis of variation applications, Conrad Adam examines some unusual recent case law ...read more

Living Together Consultation Paper Published

Resolution has just published its Living Together consultation paper. For more information please follow the link below to Resolution's website... ...read more

Can I take the children abroad on holiday?

If you want to take children under 16 out of the United Kingdom you need oral or written consent from the other person with parental responsibility. To do so without appropriate consent would be illegal; however, if consent is not given you can apply to a ...read more

Madonna | Divorce with Guy Ritchie

The gossip magazines are telling the world that Madonna may be entering divorce negotiations with her husband Guy Ritchie. They may have retained divorce specialist solicitors. If that is so, what will their lawyers be telling them? ...read more

Pre-Nups To Become Legally Enforceable?

The Law Commission has announced a Marital Property Agreements project to examine the status and enforceability of agreements made by spouses or civil partners ...read more

Uncharted territory

Conrad Adam, assisted by Rebecca Ryalls, considers the development of the law and the issues facing the courts when dealing with children issues in same-sex relationships ...read more

McCartney case may affect divorce deals

The divorce case between Heather Mills and Sir Paul McCartney made for lively reading. It also provided a new insight into how the High Court might view short marriages that involve considerable assets ...read more

Financial provision on dissolution

With case law still awaited, Conrad Adam considers the financial issues when dealing with the dissolution of a civil partnership and the relationship with matrimonial law ...read more

Managing Strong Emotions in Collaborative Divorce

Top Ten things for Clients to Remember During a Divorce to Maintain their Sanity ...read more

Taking the spleen out of splitting up

Unmarried couples have few legal rights when they break up - but they soon may have more ...read more

When cooing stops but billing continues: Mediation

A mother of two in San Francisco estimated that she and her former spouse had spent more than $6 million in six years trying to divide up their assets. Se declined to give her name because she and her ex-husband were still in litigation. ...read more

Managing the business of divorce

How can entrepreneurs protect their work from other people’s big-money settlements? ...read more

Consult your calendar before you split

When relationships break down, sorting out your financial affairs is unlikely to be your number one priority. But with divorced partners facing sizeable capital gains tax bills unless they split their assets quickly, many love-lost couples are coming unde ...read more

Pre-Nup halts multimillion pound divorce case

Having been divorced from three husbands previously Susan Crossley has already obtained settlements worth £18 million ...read more

Courts get tough on contact breaches, new laws announced

Courts get tough on contact breaches, new laws announced ...read more
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