Family

Articles

The rise of Financial Dispute Resolution in transforming family law disputes

Lesley Smythe explores how FDR hearings have become an increasingly effective mechanism in family law, offering a more decisive, cost-effective and less adversarial approach

Reform is needed to protect victims of domestic abuse in the family courts

Charlotte Image-Flower addresses the progress and challenges in addressing domestic abuse in family courts

The largest review of maternity services in the UK – Nottingham and the Ockenden Review

Greg Almond and Julie Walker provide an update on the Ockenden Review and the level of progress being made to address the failings within maternity services

Where there’s a way, there’s a Will….

Rosamond McDowell discusses the Law Commission’s supplementary consultation on electronic Wills

International divorces: The complex web of multi-jurisdictional battles

Amy Langford unravels the complexities of international divorces, illuminating the nuanced legal challenges involved

Protecting inheritance from divorce

Adam Maguire looks at how an inheritance can be kept separate from matrimonial assets

STEP warns the public against ‘cowboy will’ promises and unqualified, incompetent will writers

Dishonest, unqualified and incompetent will writers are costing people millions in extra tax, causing significant distress and leaving grieving families to deal with the financial and emotional consequences of bad advice

Costs and conduct in financial remedy cases

Leora Taratula-Lyons examines recent case law on how costs are awarded in financial remedy proceedings following divorce