Family

Articles

Are settlement conferences appropriate?

Dominic Raeside reflects on the benefits – or otherwise – of settlement conferences in children cases and whether FDAC is a meaningful comparison

Rise in work for family lawyers despite low divorce rate

Solicitors attribute falling figures to rise in cohabitation and legal aid cuts

Keep calm and stop recording

Is it ever wise to make audio recordings of children for the purposes of litigation in family cases, asks Mariko Wilson

Power to the people

Why are family lawyers against settlement conferences, wonders Jean-Yves Gilg

Lawyers overwhelmingly hostile to settlement conferences in care proceedings

'Get ready for team-building days out with local authority managers', says barrister

'Why won't you listen?'

Individuals going through a traumatic and bitter family breakdown find it difficult to submit to legal decisions, observes Hazel Wright

Pragmatic prenups

More and more couples are considering prenuptial agreements, but do they understand their implications, wonders Pippa Allsop

A matter of equal choice

It was not so long ago that same-sex couples were fighting for civil partnerships and marriage rights, but now heterosexual couples want those same choices, writes Kate Johnson