Menopause – Turning the Clock Back for Women?

Earlier this year, with the help of Family Law Partners, I launched the Family Law Menopause Project. It had the straightforward aim of encouraging family lawyers to consider the impact of menopause on clients.I was prepared for curiosity and healthy scep…

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• Farhana Shahzady

!06/07/2022 07:13

Dodgy Digital Documents: Where Are We Now? Where Are We Going?

In the sun-kissed, halcyon days of late 2019 when Brexit had not yet taken effect and a corona was a halo of gas seen around the sun during an eclipse, a fevered discussion was taking place on Twitter between family lawyers regarding the increasing freque…

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• Digital
• Disclosure
• Fraud
• Manipulation
• Evidence
• Fake
• Documents

• Helen Brander

!06/07/2022 07:13

Security for Costs in Family Proceedings

In MG v AR [2021] EWHC 3063 (Fam), Mostyn J made an order providing security for costs. Such orders are more frequently made in civil proceedings, where ‘costs follow the event’ and costs orders are made in favour of the successful party. An a…

• Journal

• Security for costs
• Costs

• Elissa Da-Costa Waldman

!06/07/2022 07:13

Mltpl: A New Business Valuation Tool

Business valuations are often associated with high costs, long delays and, in many instances, subjective analysis and unsupported conclusions. Inevitably, questions arise as to their utility, given their inherent fragility.

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• Valuations
• Automation
• AI
• Experts
• Forensic Accountants

• Thomas Rodwell
• Ben McGeoch

!06/07/2022 07:12

Getting Blood Out of a Stone – Handling the Uncooperative Ex-Spouse

Sadly, what follows is not an uncommon scenario. Hotly contested divorce proceedings result in an order being made that requires one spouse to make financial payments to the other over a period of months or years.Everyone breathes a sigh of relief that th…

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• Simon Rowe

!06/07/2022 07:11

The Origins of the Financial Remedies Court – an Insider’s View (Part 2)

On 29 October 2018, the President announced that, following further consultation, he had given the ‘green light’ for the pilot to start working in each of the additional eight courts I had identified: Financial Remedies Pilot extended [2018] F…

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• Sir James Munby

!06/07/2022 07:10

Domestic Abuse in Financial Remedy Cases

While domestic abuse is one of the issues currently at the top of the family law agenda, it is not as prominent in financial remedy work as it is in children work and professional discussion is limited.

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• Judith Crisp
• Rosemary Hunter
• Emma Hitchings

!06/07/2022 07:09

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, the judgment offers an exceptionally lucid and helpful analysis of existing case law.

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• Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications

• Gwynfor Evans

!06/07/2022 07:08

Schedule 1 Property Structures

The main focus in cases under Schedule 1 to the Children Act 1989 is often on how to meet the housing needs of a child; understandably so, as it is usually the largest cost. It can also be the starting point for settlement as the type of property and loca…

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• Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications

• Jemma Pollock
• Rebecca Fisher
• Pieter Boodt

!06/07/2022 07:07

Both Sides Now: DN v UD

UD v DN (Schedule 1, Children Act 1989; Capital Provision) [2021] EWCA Civ 1947 is one of only a handful of cases under Schedule 1 to the Children Act 1989 (Schedule 1) to have made it to the Court of Appeal since Re P (Child: Financial Provision) [2003] EWCA Civ 837.

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• Katherine Kelsey
• Laura Moys

!06/07/2022 07:06