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Traditional marriage etiquette recommends sending out wedding invitations 6-8 weeks before the big day. Under the proposed new divorce reform, a spouse might have the same amount of notice of...

Nowadays, with advances in technology, many things have been digitised, resulting in much less important paperwork. This is not however the case for wills which are still physical documents. It is...

As of 31st December 2019, it is now possible for both same-sex and heterosexual couples to enter into a civil partnership. The institution was initially devised solely for same-sex couples through the...

Family analysis: Siddique Patel, solicitor at Shoosmiths, discusses the decision of the Court of Appeal overturning that of Williams J when he ruled that an Islamic Nikah ceremony could be classed as...

Baljinder Bath, BarristerSarah Palmer, SolicitorOver the last decade, we as a society have developed a much greater understanding of special educational needs, learning disabilities and social and...

Barry McAlinden, Field Court ChambersCases involving the killing of one parent at the hands of another (uroxide) are unsurprisingly fraught. Surprisingly they are also more common than you might...

Clare Williams and Laurie Kershaw, JMW SolicitorsEasy access to DNA testing means that there are few practical barriers to ascertaining a child’s genetic parentage. The incidence of paternity...

We are approaching 20 years since the seminal House of Lords decision in White v White [2000] UKHL 54, yet the judicial debate as to how to implement the principle it established, that there...

It is sometimes possible for the English Family Court to make a financial order where the divorce has taken place in another country, and even where that other country has already made a financial...

None of my cases before Lady Hale had much to do with children, but that is the area where her deep understanding of the law will be most felt now that she has stepped down as president of the Supreme...

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