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These days it isn’t just senior business executives or celebrity movie stars who have interests overseas.  It is not uncommon for couples to get married abroad, live or work abroad or have property...

I attended a wedding a while ago where the atmosphere was tense rather than joyful because the bride’s parents had divorced ten years previously and animosity between them still reigned. Although...

Increasingly couples in England and Wales (different laws apply in Scotland and Northern Ireland) are signing up to prenuptial agreements to protect their assets in the event of divorce.  These are s...

The short answer is no – in short childless marriages where both parties have good careers that may not be the case. The justification for equal division of assets is explored by the Court of App...

Three new financial remedies courts are being trialled in London, South East Wales and the West Midlands in early 2018. This is good news.  The concept behind this is that judges in these courts w...

What can be the impact of couple conflict on children? When children are exposed to their parent’s conflict which is frequent, intense and unresolved, it can be extremely harmful to them. This appli...

I recently attended an International Family Law Conference in Iceland and learnt that the post separation parenting experience is based on shared parenting (50/50) and that the children of separated p...

If Simon hid money from Gemma when they were agreeing their financial settlement on divorce, is there anything she can do about it? Possibly. During divorce negotiations and before reaching an a...