Book Review: Cohabitation Law and Practice Handbook (3rd Edition)
Gwynfor Evans reviews the Cohabitation Law and Practice Handbook, 3rd edition, published by Resolution and edited by Graeme Fraser, with 16 notable contributors.
Gwynfor Evans (The 36 Group)
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Child Maintenance and Mortgage Payments – New Guidance: LM v SSWP & NM [2024] UKUT 259 (AAC)
What happens if the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) has determined that a non-resident parent (NRP) is required to pay child maintenance to the parent-with-care (PWC), but payments are also being made towards the mortgage secured on the property in which PWC still lives with the qualifying child/children (QC)? Does
Tech Corner: Twenty Simple Excel Tips for Financial Remedy Practitioners
Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program for presenting formatted numbers and for performing calculations on them. It also offers basic text-editing for labelling and for explaining any figures and calculations.
The spreadsheet consists of thousands of ‘cells’. A cell may contain text, numbers, dates, formulas, calculations, or nothing. Each cell
Non-disclosure, Occupation Orders and Transfers of Tenancy
When a couple separates, either party may be able to apply for one or both of two powerful property-focused remedies. The first is an occupation order. This regulates occupation of a family home, permitting (perhaps with conditions) occupation by one or both parties and restricting, prohibiting and perhaps terminating occupation
Oil on Troubled Waters
Hudson v Hathway [2022] EWCA Civ 1648 is another dispute in the seemingly never-ending conveyor-belt of cases about real ownership of a home. The property – Picnic House – (the litigation being anything but a picnic) was upon its acquisition in 2007 legally and beneficially owned by Lee Hudson (LH) and Jayne
Zooming In: Video Evidence from Outside the Jurisdiction
During the COVID-19 pandemic video-conference hearings became common-place for family lawyers, as for many other lawyers. HMCTS rolled out a Cloud Video Platform, and many courts used Skype for Business and latterly (a swiftly modernised) Microsoft Teams as platforms upon which hearings, including final hearings, could be conducted.
But there
Schedule 1 Remedies for the Older Child
HHJ Hess recently handed down a helpful decision as to jurisdiction under Schedule 1 for an adult child in J & K v L (Schedule 1: Older Children) [2021] EWFC B104.
While this decision is non-binding,[[1]] the judgment offers an exceptionally lucid and helpful analysis of existing case law,