Nuptial Agreements,Latest News
Blanchards Law in Mail on Sunday
http://www.absolutepublishing.com/Portals/0/Uploads/RateCards/MOS_Weddings_MediaPack_020212.pdfBlanchards Law features in Wedding Essentials Supplement in Mail on Sunday on 11 March 2012
International Family Law,Financial Issues
How & When to obtain a Financial Settlement in England after a Foreign Divorce
How & When to obtain a Financial Settlement in England after a Foreign Divorce There are many reasons as to why I receive enquiries from clients as to the ability of the English Court to make…
Points to Consider for Pre-Nuptial Agreements
Pre-nuptial or Pre-marriage Agreements (“prenups”) represent a difficult issue for a couple to grapple with, and are often viewed with suspicion and seen as unromantic. As the title suggests,…
How Do You Challenge a Financial Consent Order?
How do you challenge a Financial Consent Order? Consent Orders and other financial settlement orders made in family proceedings are designed to be final. For this reason judges are very wary of…
Children’s happiness and The Good Childhood Report 2012. How can we shield our children from the worst of our divorce?
Children’s happiness and The Good Childhood Report 2012. How can we shield our children from the worst of our divorce? Today’s report by the Children’s Society: “The Good Childhood Report 2012”…
Children,Divorce & Separation,Latest News
Equal Rights for Parents on Divorce
I read in today's Telegraph about the Government's plan to introduce legislation and force courts to give equal rights of contact (formerly access) to both parents. I as surprised as the…
Forced Marriage not Illegal in the UK
Forced Marriage not Illegal in the UK Baroness Warsi in guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 14 December 2011 says: “Forced marriage is inhumane, unacceptable – and not illegal in the UK”. This practice has…
Post Christmas surge in divorces – myth or reality?
Post Christmas surge in divorces - myth or reality? The received wisdom is that troubled couples stay together over the Christmas period under sufferance 'for the sake of the children', but…
Jail Time for Child Abductors?
Jail Time for Child Abductors? On 13 December 2011, in the criminal case of R v Kayani; R v Solliman ([2011 EWCA Crim 2871]), Lord Justice Judge refused to reduce custodial terms of three years and…
Pitfalls in the Law for Unmarried Couples and How to Protect Yourself
At Blanchards Law we can advise you both at the start of your cohabitation, by drawing up an agreement between you, but also at the end, when you are thinking of separating. The law around unmarried…
