How Cohabitation Reform Could Reduce Pressure on Public Finances

Following the UK general election in 2024, the Government has gone on record various times since to confirm that a public consultation will be issued later this year to strengthen the rights and protections available to women in cohabiting couples. In this article, Graeme Fraser sets out why legislating for and implementing reform should be a no brainer in terms of the money it could save for the UK economy.

• Blog

• Cohabitation

• Graeme Fraser

!30/05/2025 08:00

Prenups Aren’t ‘Sign and Done’: Why Reviews Matter Just as Much as the Ring

Elizabeth Bowden is a big fan of prenuptial/pre-civil partnership agreements (‘prenups’) because, at the very least, both parties are forced to have really open and transparent conversations about money, finances, goals and aspirations. Anyone looking to make marriage/civil partnership vows should do this before they sign on the dotted line.

• Blog

• Pre-Nuptial Agreements

• Elizabeth Bowden

!28/05/2025 14:00

Re-multiplied Propagation

In this article Sir Nicholas Mostyn refers to those financial remedy cases heard in private to which s 12 Administration of Justice Act 1960 does not apply as mainstream financial remedy cases. As is well-known, s 12 imposes an automatic restriction on publishing the details of any financial remedy case which is mainly about child maintenance. The great majority of financial remedy cases are not protected by s 12.

• Journal

• Transparency
• Privacy
• Reporting

• Sir Nicholas Mostyn

!28/05/2025 10:00

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

SM v BA (No 2: Maintenance Pending Suit) [2025] EWFC 2819 February 2025

Nicholas Allen KC, sitting as a deputy High Court judge. Application to increase maintenance pending suit (MPS) in ‘super-rich’ financial remedies case.

• Cases

• Interim Relief
• Maintenance Pending Suit
• Costs
• Legal Services Payment Orders

• Abigail Clements-Bewley