David Hodson on International Family Law: Law Reforms in Euro zone crisis countries

News reaches of another southern Mediterranean country Italy facing financial crisis with more problems for the Euro currency and with the remaining EU countries expected to bail them out or write off their debts. This affects England as much as any others because of the role of the City. In these circumstances is it not reasonable to ask for just a few favourable terms of the bail out? Favourable to international families and for us lawyers who daily try to sort out their relationship difficulties.

These problems are not direct components of the financial crisis but they are not wholly unrelated to the wider cultural issues. So a few thoughts:

• Land Registry entries should have some bearing on actual ownership rather than either being an aspirational wish list a record that may be many years old and out of date or simply confusing so that no one including no foreign lawyer ...

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