Maintenance for a Disabled Adult Child: A Case of Legal Blogging

Given the announcement of a new Financial Remedies Court reporting pilot, Polly Morgan discusses the process of legal blogging: the rules around accessing the hearing, the practicalities of reporting, the framework for controlling what can be reported, and the drafting of a reporting restriction order.

• Journal

• Transparency
• Publicity and Confidentiality
• Maintenance

• Polly Morgan | Case Editor

!13/03/2024 07:00

Cohabitation – The Case For and Against Reform

Divorce law, in principle at least, seems pretty sensible. You keep what you brought into the marriage and share what you gained. So why shouldn’t the same or similar rights and responsibilities apply to cohabiting couples who have shared a life together?

• Journal

• Cohabitation

• Graeme Fraser
• Harry Benson

!13/03/2024 07:00

Interview with Hilary Woodward

Rhys Taylor interviews Hilary Woodward, a former solicitor and mediator, academic and the about to retire CEO of the Pension Advisory Group.

• Journal

• Pensions on Divorce
• Interview

• Rhys Taylor | Vice Chair of the Editorial Board & Journal Editor
• Hilary Woodward

!13/03/2024 07:00

Armed Forces Pension Schemes (AFPS)

Armed Forces pensions are among some of the most complex pensions that practitioners can be faced with when dealing with divorce and financial settlements. This guide to some of the issues is written for practitioners to consider when faced with such pensions.

• Journal

• Pensions on Divorce

• Mark Hood

!13/03/2024 07:00

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.

• Journal

• Tech Corner

• Gwynfor Evans

!13/03/2024 07:00

Book Review: Cohabitation and Trusts of Land

Graeme Fraser reviews the fourth edition of Cohabitation and Trusts of Land, by Elizabeth Darlington and Laura Heaton.

• Journal

• Cohabitation
• Book Review

• Graeme Fraser

!13/03/2024 07:00

Historical Business Valuations and the Goldilocks Principle: Not Too Much or Too Little but Just the Right Amount of Hindsight

This article compares the attitude taken to the use of hindsight in the commercial courts with that in the family courts.

• Journal

• Business Valuation

• Roger Isaacs

!13/03/2024 07:00

The Summary of the Summaries (Spring 2024)

Summaries of recent cases including Simon v Simon & Integro Funding Limited [2023] EWCA Civ 1048, Ditchfield v Ditchfield (Appeal) [2023] EWHC 2303 (Fam), Cazalet v Abu-Zalaf [2023] EWCA Civ 1065 and Xanthopoulos v Rakshina [2023] EWFC 158.

• Journal

• Liam Kelly

!13/03/2024 07:00

Qualified Legal Representatives in Financial Remedy Proceedings

The recent decision in AXA v BYB (QLR Financial Remedies) [2023] EWFC 251 (B) is the first time in which a qualified legal representative was appointed and used in a financial remedies final hearing at the Central Family Court.

• Journal

• Qualified Legal Representative

• Adrian Barnett-Thoung-Holland
• Alice Thornton

!13/03/2024 07:00