
Can the court determine it has jurisdiction to order child maintenance even when there isn't a maximum CMS assessment in force?
!04/12/2023 09:22
It is now 10 years since the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO) came into force. Reflecting back, the obvious impact on my firm’s practice has been the reduction in the number of financial remedy cases we deal with wh…
!27/03/2023 09:41
The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley starts with one of the most celebrated opening lines in literature:‘The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.’Historically, the same could be said of the Family Division, where a husband or…
!22/11/2022 17:00
This article reviews how solicitors currently fulfil the filing requirements of the 2022 Statement on the Efficient Conduct of Financial Remedy Hearings in the Financial Remedies Court below High Court Judge Level (the Efficiency Statement).
!21/05/2025 10:00
The compensation principle made a surprising reappearance in the case of TM v KM [2022] EWFC 155, where HHJ Hess made an order for the wife to receive £500,000 by way of compensation for the 'relationship-generated sacrifice' that she made in giving up her lucrative career in investment banking.
!10/02/2023 23:20
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