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Marriage, mental capacity and the law

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Date:12 FEB 2019
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In this article, family lawyer Zoe Bloom, of Keystone Law, explores the difficult dilemma of dementia divorce.

There are currently more than 850,000 people suffering from dementia in the UK, a figure that looks set to rise. In light of these astonishing statistics and news of a recent case in which a woman is looking to divorce her estranged, aristocratic husband who lacks the mental capacity to instruct lawyers, Bloom looks at the wider issue.

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