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A report by the Local Government & Social Care Ombudsman has found that homelessness is increasingly affecting families from areas and professions who previously might never have expected to face...

An independent report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation shows that around 14 million people in the UK currently live in poverty, which is more than one in five of the population. The report’s figures...

Legal experts believe new Financial Remedies Courts (FRCs) should provide claimants and respondents with greater predictability, when resolving financial claims on relationship breakdown. Three FRCs...

Victims of domestic violence will get more support in taking abusive former partners to court, the Ministry of Justice has announced. The current five-year time limit on abuse evidence in the family...

James MunbyPresident of the Family DivisionThe need for and the many benefits to be derived from the introduction of a national system of Financial Remedies Courts have been persuasively argued by HHJ...

Cafcass has published research which shows the scale of private law cases that come back to court. The research shows that 30% of the 40,599 private law applications involving Cafcass in 2016/17...

Issued by the President of the Family Division30 November 2017Inordinate amounts of time and money are spent – wasted – in the process of drafting orders that could, and therefore should, be...

Over 500 family lawyers enjoyed a sparkling evening at the seventh annual Family Law Awards last night at the Ballroom South Bank in London.Finalists, sponsors and guests celebrated the hard work,...

Jessica MccarthyLexisNexis Current AwarenessA ComRes poll has revealed that two-thirds of cohabitating couples are unaware there is no such thing as a ‘common law marriage’ in England and Wales. The...

The Family Law Awards are taking place on Wednesday at The Ballroom South Bank.The Awards recognise the important work of family lawyers, and celebrate their many successes and outstanding...

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