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

Conduct and Its Consequences: Goddard-Watts and TK v LK

In ‘Is It Time to Consign the “Gasp” Factor to the History Books?’, Olivia Piercy and Anita Mehta considered whether three decisions might herald a significant change in the courts’ approach to domestic abuse, including economic abuse and coercive and controlling behaviour, as ‘conduct’ that it would be ‘inequitable to disregard’. If there is a nascent consensus that it is time for a change in approach, that view may not be universally held.

• Blog

• Conduct

• Andrew Day

!15/04/2024 21:08

Mr Justice Mostyn – An Appreciation on His Forthcoming Retirement

Cruel fate has cut short the judicial career of one of the greatest family lawyers of our times. He explains why in his article, ‘Sir Nicholas Mostyn shares his experience of living with Parkinson’s’ [2023] IFL 67. In the form of a revel…

• Journal

• Sir James Munby

!03/07/2023 08:00

D(R) Day: Today’s Changes to FPR Parts 3 and 28

FPR Part 3 has historically been underused. This may change as important revisions to both FPR Part 3 and Part 28 come into effect, on 29 April 2024, when the material parts of the Family Procedure (Amendment No 2) Rules 2023 (SI 2023/1324) come into force.

• Blog

• NCDR
• Family Procedure Rules

• Nicholas Allen KC
• Andrew Day
• Rhys Taylor | Vice Chair of the Editorial Board & Journal Editor

!29/04/2024 07:00

Tech Corner: iPad Pro (2021) Review, Or, as a Solicitor, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love a Tablet

For as long as I can remember, an in-person attendance with family finance practitioners at the Bar has always been the first place for me to see the latest Apple releases in the wild. With apologies to younger readers who may not get the reference, I sti…

• Journal

• Tech Corner

• David Lillywhite

!06/07/2022 07:14