Family

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Family law: cost-of-living crisis or cost-of-loving crisis?

Shanika Haynes assesses the impact of inflation on family relationships

Domestic abuse: coercive and controlling behaviour

Antonia Mee and Peter Burgess summarise Burgess Me';s latest seminar

Joint divorces: a false dawn or a new frontier?

Peter Burgess and Shaili Desai evaluate no-fault divorce

Making child maintenance work when costs are rising

Simon Donald considers child support in a cost-of-living crisis

Legal considerations around surrogacy

Harriet Errington and Pippa Cook explore international and domestic surrogacy and argue of the need for reforms

Backlog in the Family Court

Anthony Kiernan considers delays to family justice

All change: Hirachand v Hirachand [2021] EWCA Civ 1498

Michael Welsh evaluates the effect of Hirachand

A new direction for modern family law?

Sacha Lee considers Re Ms L and Re Ms M (declaration of parentage) [2022] EWFC 38