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On 6 August 2018, The International Family Law Group LLP (iFLG) became the first firm of solicitors to issue an English divorce petition online. The petition was issued, returned and ready for service...

On 12 July the Government published its post-Chequers White Paper, The future relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union, which sets out broad proposals for the future partnership...

Female genital mutilation (FGM) was made a specific criminal offence in England, Wales and Northern Ireland by the Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act 1985 and is now regulated by the Female...

Lord Justice Andrew McFarlane has suggested that contact between adopted children and their birth relatives needs further consideration and that the law may have an important role to play in shaping...

A recent family law case has highlighted a hole in the legal protection of Islamic couples whose ‘marriage’ may be considered a void marriage in English law, or may not be a marriage at all.The case...

AB v CD and others [2018] EWHC 1590 (Fam) illustrates how the needs of modern families formed through assisted conception and surrogacy continue to challenge and outpace the law. Louisa Ghevaert...

Family analysis: In Re C (A Child) (Schedule 1 Children Act Variation) [2018] Lexis Citation 63, [2018] All ER (D) 32 (Aug) the Family Court examined the power of a court to vary or revoke an order...

This month thousands of people up and down the country found out whether they had done enough to get into their university of choice. After a long, hard slog involving many sacrificed weekends and...

Andrew Bainham's article in the September issue of Family Law ([2018] Fam Law 1150) explores the tension between the powers of the court and the statutory duties of the local authority in public law...

Family analysis: In AH v CD and others [2018] EWHC 1643 (Fam), [2018] All ER (D) 162 (Jun) an application by a father who sought his son’s return to Spain, after the child was taken out of the...

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