James v Seymour: The Calculator

As helpfully summarised by Calum Smith on the FRJ website Mostyn J’s judgment in James v Seymour [2023] EWHC 844 (Fam) 675 included a renewed attempt to tackle how Child Maintenance should be calculated, effectively refining the methodology first se…

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• Dom Christophers

!29/05/2023 08:00

Pensions on Divorce – Standard Family Order Template

This article relates to the publication of the new pension sharing order (PSO) template at paragraph number 95 in the Standard Family Orders suite.

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

!17/05/2023 16:22

Child Maintenance Top-Ups – an Update Following James v Seymour [2023] EWHC 844 (Fam)

The quantum of child maintenance is an area of considerable contention, particularly in the context that there are now around 629,000 taxpayers earning more than £150,000. This is a 2.3 times increase since the statutory ceiling was introduced some 10 years ago.

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• Thomas Braithwaite

!06/05/2023 15:27

Are You There ChatGPT? It’s Me, Charlotte – ChatGPT, Generative AI and the Law

Readers will probably have heard by now of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Many of you will have experimented with it, or one of the other available generative artificial intelligence (AI) models such as Microsoft’s Bing. If you have not yet utilised any of these new technologies, you will very likely have read about them. This article is based on my experience with this novel technology, chiefly ChatGPT.

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• Charlotte John

!16/05/2023 12:57

James v Seymour [2023] EWHC 844 (Fam)19 April 2023

Mostyn J. An appeal concerning the correct approach to the calculation of child maintenance liability in which Mostyn J adds to the ever-expanding repository of family law acronyms.The mother ('M') and father ('F') had married in 2010, but separated in 20…

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• Calum Smith