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The Department for Education has withdrawn a controversial document about council duties to vulnerable children and young people, after the childrens' rights charity Article 39 launched an...

Grandparents play an important part in the lives of their grandchildren, and it’s usually a positive thing if they can stay in touch with them after a separation or divorce. ...

The 25th anniversary of the opening of the doors of the Child Support Agency (now Child Maintenance Service (CMS)) was reached, with no enthusiasm on my part, on 3 April 2018. The Department for Work...

Figures released by the Department of Work and Pensions estimate that out of the 41,800 parents that had contact with Child Maintenance Options between May and July 2018, 80% had a child maintenance...

According to the latest figures released by Cafcass, a total of 1,001 new care order applications was received in February 2019, which is 16.1% fewer than in February 2018.The total of new care order...

In this article, David Burrows discusses Owens v Owens and issues around divorce law reform. ...

Kelly Gerrard and William Longrigg of Charles Russell Speechlys review the costs rules in ancillary relief proceedings and set out the case for reinstating the Calderbank regime. ...

A report by the Law Society of Scotland has called for a review of the laws on cohabitation in Scotland. The report found that the Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006 (FL(S)A 2006), in its current form, is...

A Bill to amend the Children Act 1989 to state that proceedings under Section 5A of, and Schedule 2 to, the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 are family proceedings. ...

During the second video interview in our Family Law Insights series, host Rebecca Bailey-Harris, a barrister at 1 Hare Court, sits down with Margaret Heathcote, chair of Resolution, as they...

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