In a 5-4 majority decision, the Supreme Court made it legal for same-sex couples to marry in all 50 states. Prior to this decision, only… Read More »US Supreme Court rules that same-sex marriage is a legal right across the United States
In the case of DH v HN [2014] EWHC 3435 (Fam) the husband (unnamed) was ordered to pay £8.49 million to enable the wife to… Read More »Wife’s application to require husband to pay £8.49m plus interest and fees to enable the completion of a property purchase allowed.
“I would just like to say a great big thank you to everyone who supported, donated generally wished me well for my London Marathon run.”
Immigrant families who find themselves excluded from benefits as a result of the government clampdown on what they see as benefit tourists raises issues for… Read More »Tension Between Immigration Law And Children In Need
A case where the judge ruled that a child should live with his paternal grandparents, even though his father was found guilty of killing his… Read More »Court Rules Boy To Stay With Killer’s Father
Mrs Justice Theis has warned when speaking at a conference ‘Surrogacy Symposium’ in London, that failure by parents to obtain parental orders in respect of… Read More »Children born through surrogacy who lack a court’s parental order could become ‘stateless and parentless’ with birth mother remaining legal parent – warns High Court judge.
Ekaterina Parfenova, 42, beauty queen and actress and her husband Richard Fields, 59, an international lawyer based in Miami married in 2002 and have two… Read More »Judge urges couple to stop ‘boxing match’ divorce proceedings and settle their differences as legal costs have soared to £1million
What is Universal Credit? Universal Credit was introduced by the government in 2012 and has already been introduced in many areas. Universal Credit is a… Read More »Does Child or Spousal Maintenance affect Universal Credit?
When couples divorce, businesses and properties (regardless of whose name they are in) form part of the assets to be shared and are a central… Read More »Curran v Collins [2015] – woman unable to establish beneficial interest in her former partner’s properties or business after 33 year relationship.
There are many grandparents, who for a variety of reasons, are stopped from seeing their grandchildren and the effect of this can be devastating. Earlier… Read More »Growing number of grandparents are seeking help and advice after being denied access to their grandchildren