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Making Mediation Meaningful

Making Mediation Meaningful

If you are separating from your partner, either as a married couple or cohabitee, you may have considered or even...
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Divorce, Mediation

Good news story!

Good news story!

It is not the most exciting, but for divorcing and separating couples reforms were announced last month (15.3.23)...
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A Move to the Country

A Move to the Country

It may not necessarily be a move out of the city to the country. It could be the fact that you are planning on...
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No fault divorce, at last

No fault divorce, at last

The very long-awaited Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020 is to come into force on the 6th April next...
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Pre-Nup/Post-Nup

Pre-Nup/Post-Nup

If you are planning on marrying and are concerned to preserve property and/or money you have acquired before your...
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Prenuptial Agreements

Children come first

Children come first

In all family court proceedings the children of the family come first, as the paramount consideration in cases under...
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Merry sharing Christmas

Merry sharing Christmas

For those families where the parents are living apart and will be separated over the Christmas period, every effort...
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Mind the Pension Gap

Mind the Pension Gap

Modelling done by Nest the workplace pension scheme, has recently revealed that based on the average UK wage which...
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Collaborative Law, Divorce, Pensions

HOW ARE YOU COPING WITH COVID?

HOW ARE YOU COPING WITH COVID?

Just because there is a pandemic, it doesn’t mean that family problems requiring the assistance of legal advice, are...
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The end of the blame game

The end of the blame game

You may have heard the news that, at very long last after many years of campaigning by family lawyers, the Divorce,...
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Divorce, Marriage Breakdown