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The recent cases of Stack v Dowden [2007] UKHL 17 and Jones v Kernott [2011] UKSC53 demonstrate how complicated the law is in this area and how essential it is to ensure that conveyancing documentatio...

On the 2 May 2012, in the case of So Youn Kim v Anthony Thomas Morris [2012] EWHC 1103 (Fam), the High Court was asked to decide a number of issues concerning whether the applicant Wife could file f...

The House of Lords decisions in Jones v Kernott [2011] UKSC 53 and Stack v Dowden [2007] UKHL 17 have led to a spate of Court of Appeal decisions involving properties in the sole name of the Defendant...

Since White v White [2001] 1 AC 596, [2000] 2 FLR 981 the courts have frequently had to grapple with the issue of how to define and divide non-matrimonial property. Two recent cases illustrate this....

So many published cases involve assets of considerable value. There is always difficulty in applying the principles established in such cases to the more everyday type of case. Younger practitione...

One of the factors under section 25 Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 which the court must have regard to when redistributing the assets on divorce, is the age of the parties and the duration of the marriag...

Written in conjunction with Caroline Davey of Gingerbread and Sarah Scott Single parents have been vilified for centuries and whilst the stigma may have reduced with the years it has not disappeare...

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