‘You Want Me to Do What Now?’ – The Return-to-Work Question and the Quiet Cost of Executive Marriage

She hadn’t written a CV in 20 years. Hadn’t needed to. When her ex’s career took off, they moved every few years. She held everything else together while he earned the money. But ‘everything else’ was a lot. A job that never ended, never paid, and never came with recognition, until now, when it’s being questioned. Because now, as part of the divorce, she’s being asked to outline her ‘return-to-work plan’.

• Journal

• Economic Disparity
• Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
• 5-Year Career Plan
• Return to Work

• Ceri Griffiths

!30/06/2025 06:00

Flo, FI v DO and the Future: Dogs on Divorce

Meet Flo. She is my Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. I know I am biased, but she is beautiful and is a key member of my family. I bought her with my very first pay cheque from my work as a barrister and she has been with me ever since. She is my trusty companion.

• Journal

• Chattels
• divorce
• Pets
• FI v DO
• Dogs

• Emily Ward

!30/06/2025 06:00

The Challenges of Dealing with Overseas Pensions on Divorce

Pension rights that have been accrued in overseas territories by divorcing parties present a number of challenges for practitioners where proceedings take place within this jurisdiction. This article explores some of the pitfalls that might arise and the issues that practitioners need to consider.

• Journal

• Pensions
• PAG
• Overseas

• Beverley Morris
• Jonathan Galbraith

!30/06/2025 06:00

Financial Remedy Reform – ‘Fairness’ – Do Divorcing Parties Get Any Say – Time for Some Soul Searching for Family Law Professionals

Ashley Murray considers the Law Commission’s 373-page scoping report on Financial Remedies on Divorce and Dissolution, which was published just before Christmas 2024.

• Blog

• Private FDR

• Ashley Murray

!30/06/2025 06:58

M v B [2025] EWFC 18225 June 2025

Sir Jonathan Cohen (sitting as a judge of the High Court). Financial remedy proceedings considering the court’s power to strike out applications under FPR 4.4, having regard to the effect of FPR 9.9A.

• Cases

• 'Thwaite Jurisdiction'
• Executory Orders
• Striking Out Applications

• Monique Simone Fremder