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

Child Maintenance and Mortgage Payments – New Guidance: LM v SSWP & NM [2024] UKUT 259 (AAC)

What happens if the Child Maintenance Service has determined that a non-resident parent is required to pay child maintenance to the parent-with-care, but payments are also being made towards the mortgage secured on the property in which PWC still lives with the qualifying child/children? Does it matter if the property is jointly owned by NRP and PWC? Will those mortgage payments reduce the amount of child maintenance?

• Blog

• Mortgages
• Child Maintenance

• Gwynfor Evans

!29/11/2024 06:00

Standish v Standish [2024] EWCA Civ 56723 May 2024

Landmark decision where Court of Appeal reduces W’s award by £20 million. Lord Justice Moylan, Lady Justice King and Lord Justice Phillips.

• Cases

• Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
• Sharing
• Gifts
• Matrimonialisation
• Tax
• Autonomy
• Trusts

• Sophia Paraskeva

Child Maintenance in Cases of Equal Shared Care

The situation: two parents share childcare seemingly equally but there is a significant income imbalance. The issue: how is child maintenance determined? Does the Child Maintenance Service have jurisdiction? Does the Family Court have jurisdiction? Do neither?

• Journal

• Child Maintenance

• Stuart McGhee
• Mark Ablett

!21/11/2023 07:00

Delaying a Divorce Because of Financial Prejudice: The New No-fault Law and Practice

There can be real loss and prejudice in some divorce cases if the final divorce order, previously the decree absolute, is granted before the final financial settlement and its implementation in circumstances when the paying party then dies.

• Blog
• Journal

• divorce

• Professor David Hodson OBE KC(Hons) MCIArb

!07/10/2024 22:10