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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, they are only raised when you and your partner…
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 allowing any challenges against them on appeal. There…
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” highlights that the most important criterion for happy…
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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 Government-commissioned report by David Norgrove last year…
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 evolved mainly with South Asian countries, such as…
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 come January they hit the lawyer's office. As the…
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 five years in respect of two men who had taken…
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 couples is still a grey area and you need to…
Alternative Dispute Resolution – What is Mediation and Collaborative Law?
At Blanchards Law we offer both a mediation and a collaborative law service. These are known as alternative dispute resolution or ADR. If you and your spouse are still speaking to one another, and can communicate, one of these may well be the…
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