Our articles are written by experts in their field and include barristers, solicitors, judges, mediators, academics and professionals from a range of related disciplines. Family Law provides a platform for debate for all the important topics, from divorce
and care proceedings to transparency and access to justice. If you would like to contribute please email emma.reitano@lexisnexis.co.uk.
Noel Arnold
Partner at Philcox Gray and Co, London, Member of the Law Society's Children Law Sub-committee and the Association of Lawyers for Children's Executive Committee
At the time of writing,...
The case of N v F [2011] EWHC 586 (fam) is primarily about the treatment of non-matrimonial assets - here assets of over £2m brought into the marriage by the husband. Mostyn J summarises the...
Safda Mahmood
Senior Local Authority Solicitor
This article covers some of the key elements surrounding the new Care Planning, Placement and Case Review (England) Regulations 2010 (SI 2010/959)...
William Healing
Partner, Woodford Stauffer Solicitors
A party to a foreign divorce and foreign financial settlement can commence fresh financial proceedings in England and Wales, under the...
Nick Brown
Barrister St Philip's Chambers, Birmingham
Part 2 of this article considers the correct approach to ex parte and on notice hearings, with particular attention being given to the...
The Japanese government has recently announced that it will prepare to ratify the 1980 Hague Convention on Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. Legislation will now be prepared for...
This week, in E (Children) UKSC 2011/0084, the Supreme Court heard argument about the correct approach to the Article 13(b) exception to the duty to return under the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil...
Just a couple of days after starting out in publicly funded childcare work, I was made aware of a quote, attributed to Munby J, to the effect that removing a child from his or her parents is the most...
Two items struck me this week - child protection and surrogacy. Disparate? No, linked.
The first issue is perhaps one of those virtually insoluble issues in family and child law which only seems to...
The Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007 has only been in force since 25 November 2008 and already the government are saying that it is not achieving it's aim and that forced marriages should...