Hannah Smith
Published: 11/11/2021 11:10
It's Hannah!
Published: 11/11/2021 11:10
It's Hannah!
You will often hear lawyers and judges commenting on how difficult it is to resolve financial remedy applications where there isn’t a lot of money. Trying to make two homes out of one is sometimes impossible. There are some important things to consider when you are looking at cases with limited assets and some pitfalls to avoid. This is a whistle-stop tour of some of those legal and practical issues.
!10/05/2024 10:53
Family law and particularly financial remedy cases involve a wealth of acronyms, initialisms and abbreviations. This can be daunting particularly for trainees, junior practitioners and clients alike when they are beginning to navigate this process. The glossary below sets out some of the most common terms used by solicitors, barristers, judges and the court and is intended to function as a user-friendly aide-memoire to some of the more common expressions to be found in this area of law.
!09/05/2024 15:31
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.
!29/04/2024 07:00
District Judge Napier held that the best interests of the children were not the only consideration of MRC 1973 s 25. The CAO had not specified ‘private’ education, and the FRC should not prioritise private education to the detriment of other emotional and physical needs of the children. The judge refused to make a school fees order to ‘encourage’ the trustees to pay school fees.
This article is a practical guide to the legal consequences of a second (/third/fourth/fifth, etc) marriage, to assist when advising clients how to avoid falling into the ‘elephant trap’ of premature remarriage – a term coined by the late Singer J.
!21/11/2023 07:00
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