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In relationship breakdown, individuals may be torn between the urge to retaliate and the need for resolution. In The Tempest, Shakespeare anticipates Freud in depicting Prospero's struggle between his...

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‘Anyone can live on £90m.’ This is an understandable human reaction to learning that Camilla Versteegh is asking the Court of Appeal to increase her original award of £90m by a further £25m. However,...

Things were different then. By 'then' I mean in 1969, when the Divorce Reform Act was passed. It is incredible that we still use the same set of 'facts' to prove that a marriage has irretrievably...

Usually, one of the first things parents think of if they are considering separating is how arrangements for their children will be managed. If your children were born through surrogacy, there may be...

In February 2015, the UK became the first country to approve laws allowing for the creation of so called 'three-parent babies'. Despite the UK being first in line to approve the legislation, there has...

In the case of Legg and others v Burton and others [2017] EWHC 2088 (Ch) the claimants, children of Mrs Clark, successfully established a constructive trust under the doctrine of mutual...

What is ‘non-molestation’? How do family courts, by order, deal with ‘molestation’, as it is now defined in law? What is ‘domestic violence’ or (if different) ‘domestic abuse’? Each of these different...

Private Client analysis: Is the test for testamentary capacity in a wills dispute the same as the mental capacity test under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA 2005)? The High Court has considered the...

Momentum is growing for the modernisation of the statutory approach to the financial division of assets on divorce, the recognition of pre- and post-nuptial agreements, and an overhaul of spousal...

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