Graeme Fraser
Published: 21/02/2022 14:33
Graeme Fraser is a solicitor and Head of the Family Team at William Sturges LLP and has been supporting, guiding and enabling people to achieve fairer outcomes, often at a difficult time in their lives, for over 25 years. He is renowned for improving protections for cohabiting couples through his practice, through his work with Resolution as Chair of its Cohabitation Committee and through commentary in the media. In 2018, Graeme won the prestigious Family Law Commentator of the Year Award voted for by the family law community in recognition of his published work highlighting the plight of unmarried couples. Last year, he won the Resolution Member’s Choice Award and was a winner of the LexisNexis Family Community Interaction Award. He is also a solicitor member of the Family Procedure Rule Committee (FPRC).
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What Financial Remedy Lawyers Need to Know About Emojis ❓👨👩🤔🧐🌝
Emojis play a significant part in digital communications, including casual messaging, social media posts, and increasingly, professional communications. When we are reviewing historical messages, understanding what the emojis were intended to mean could become an essential part of identifying what was discussed and/or agreed at that time.
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- Interpretation
!15/11/2024 08:00
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Enhancing Public Understanding of Financial Remedies on Divorce
Why is it that lawyers think that the principles underpinning financial remedies are clear, and yet the public are often perplexed? The issue is one of communication, or rather translating the law into plain English.
- Blog
- Public Understanding
- Financial Remedies
- Client Communication
!20/09/2024 09:44
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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
!13/03/2024 07:00
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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
!13/03/2024 07:00
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Graeme Fraser’s A–Z of Cohabitation
Graeme Fraser needs no introduction in the cohabitation world. This is his A–Z of Cohabitation.
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- Cohabitation
!27/10/2023 10:15
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A New Weddings Law Is Not a Panacea for Unmarried Couples
Graeme Fraser sounds a strong note of caution about the couples who don’t enter into the formalities of marriage and the gaping hole in our family laws.
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- Marriage
!12/08/2022 09:16
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The Treatment of Soft Loans in Financial Remedy Proceedings
IntroductionOn 10 February 2022, while delivering judgment in the case of P v Q [2022] EWFC B9, between P, 'the wife', and Q, 'the husband' HHJ Edward Hess gave guidance on the treatment of soft loans in financial remedy proceedings. This guidance is rele…
- Blog
- Loans
!21/02/2022 17:12