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Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020
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8 July 2020

Akhmedova v Akhmedov and others [2020] EWHC 1526 (Fam)
(Family Division, Knowles J, 12 June 2020)Financial remedies – Divorce – Application for strike-out and for disclosureThe Family Division held that, inter alia, the son's counterclaim...
Francesca Esposito
Financial Remedies 8 July 2020
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8 July 2020

JK v LM [2020] EWHC 1566 (Fam)
(Family Division, Nigel Poole QC, 17 June 2020)Wrongful retention – Hague Convention – Summary returnThe Family Division dismissed the mother’s application for summary return of the...
Francesca Esposito
Judgments 8 July 2020
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8 July 2020

Re A (A Child) [2020] EWCA Civ 731
(Court of Appeal, Sir Ernest Ryder SP, King and Hickinbottom LJJ, 15 June 2020)Female Genital Mutilation – Protection order – Jurisdiction The Court of Appeal dismissed the Secretary of...
Francesca Esposito
Judgments 8 July 2020
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8 July 2020

M v G (Hague Convention: Article 13(b) defence) [2020] EWHC 1450 (Fam)
(Family Division, Theis J, 15 May 2020)Abduction – Hague Convention – Article 13(b)The Family Division held that the issues raised did not meet the threshold in Article 13(b) and the...
Francesca Esposito
Abduction 8 July 2020
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7 July 2020

'State of emergency': children needing foster care during COVID-19 pandemic rises by 44%
The number of children needing foster care has risen by 44% during the coronavirus pandemic while the number of people looking to become foster parents plummeted by nearly half compared to the same...
News 7 July 2020
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5 July 2020

The Adoption and Children (Coronavirus)(Amendment) Regulations 2020: regulations introduced during a global pandemic that will have implications for the most vulnerable children
Professor Kim Holt, Professor of Family Law Northumbria University/Barrister at Trinity ChambersProfessor Nancy Kelly, Professor of Judgment and Decision Making in Social Work, Northumbria...
Articles 5 July 2020
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5 July 2020

Coronavirus and the expert witness: valuation instructions
Chris Walklett, FCAFamily lawyers across the country are grappling with the impacts of the Covid-19 on the process of executing and managing family cases. Hand in hand with the health impacts of...
Articles 5 July 2020
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5 July 2020

Villiers decision leaves the door open to divorce/maintenance split
Tourism over the summer months has become the impossible dream. But "tourism" in the sense of where to gain the best outcome for spousal maintenance is here to stay. That is the net effect of the...
Jennifer Wilkie
Articles 5 July 2020
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5 July 2020

Private FDRs
Simon Bruce, Farrer & CoSettling cases is rewarding for a family lawyer.Sometimes we need help in doing so, in particular the help of a lawyer/mediator adept at finding an imaginative solution in...
Articles 5 July 2020
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5 July 2020

Orphans – are some of them prejudiced by the Children Act 1989? Can this be remedied?
James Dove, Harcourt ChambersChristopher Miller, FourteenDavid Sharp, FourteenIf you are unlucky enough to be an orphan, you may be unlucky enough to have no other family member or friend willing or...
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