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The article considers the new options since the millennium for same sex and opposite sex couples to formalise their relationships. The history of the changing attitudes to same sex relations is traced...

Louise McCallum and Chloe Branton, Parklane Plowden ChambersThe devastating effects of forced marriage and FGM are well recognised by the family courts, along with the established legal mechanisms for...

Christina Warner, Four Brick CourtChristina Warner writes about the progress of LGBT families in the last 60 years. Analysing the influence of changing social attitudes and legislative developments as...

Dr Charlotte Proudman, Goldsmith ChambersPart I and Part II (which will be in the July issue of Family Law) of this article provides a critical examination of the landscape in relation to the family...

Heard by the Supreme Court in December 2019, with its judgment last July, this case attracted much interest (or “lurid publicity” as per Mr Justice Mostyn in his judgement this week) as it...

When families come to strife, arrangements must be made for the future care of any children. In some circumstances, this means an application to the courts. These ‘private law orders’ can form part of...

The value of a family business or business interest is treated as an asset and therefore part of the matrimonial pot to be distributed when it comes to negotiating a financial settlement on divorce or...

Many have experienced their own Black Lives Matter moment in the last 12 months, a sharp realisation of entrenched prejudices and inequalities that still exist in our society.In the family justice...

In November 2020 Spice Girl Mel B was in the news, despairing about how the legal costs of trying to relocate her daughter Madison from the US to England were likely to bankrupt her, leading to her...

Rose Harvey-Sullivan, 7BRSpecial Guardianship Orders are increasingly used by the family courts as a means of keeping a child with family or friends in circumstances when their parent is unable to...

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