Six out of ten MPs believe the law needs to be changed to give unmarried couples more legal protection if they separate. A survey carried out by the family law group, Resolution, found that 69% of MPs agree that the public have a mistaken belief in the “myth of common law marriage”. This misconception leads
A couple have been told they are committing financial suicide by running up huge bills in a fight over which country should deal with their divorce. Aloke Ray and Dr Charoo Sekhri met through an online dating agency in 2008. They married in 2009 and lived inLondon, but later moved toSingapore. They have one son.
The divorce rate among the over-60s is continuing to rise, according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). This is in contrast to the overall divorce figures which are falling. The divorce rate for older people was relatively stable in the 1980s but then started to rise in the early 1990s.
A father has won his appeal against a judge’s decision limiting the amount of time he was allowed to spend with his four children. The father wanted to have as much contact as possible with the children following the breakdown of his relationship with the mother. Local authority experts recommended that he should be allowed
A husband has lost his appeal to have his payments to his former wife reduced even though the couple’s assets had not been divided equally as part of the divorce settlement. The case involved a couple in their 30s who had been married for 10 years and had a daughter aged three. The wife earned
The Court of Appeal has overturned a judge’s ruling which allowed a father increased contact with his daughter. The judge granted the father extra unsupervised contact, despite also insisting that he undergo a psychological assessment to determine that the child would be safe in his care. A report produced by CAFCASS, the agency that protects
The Supreme Court has delivered a landmark ruling that divorcing husbands cannot protect their assets by signing them over to companies – a practice described as a “cheat’s charter” by some lawyers. The case involved the high profile couple, Michael and Yasmin Prest. Last year the High Court ordered that Mrs Prest should receive £17.5m
A father who abducted his two children and brought them back to the UK has been ordered to return them to their mother. The case involved a British couple who moved to Canada to start a new life with their two children, aged two and four. They separated within a few months of arriving and
A woman who divorced her husband when they both had no money has failed in her bid to share in the fortune he earned after the marriage ended. Dale Vince and Kathleen Julie Wyatt separated in 1984 when they were both in their early 20s. They divorced in 1992. Mr Vince was penniless at the
A father has won an appeal against a court order that rejected the recommendations of childcare experts and reduced his contact with his children. The local authority and child welfare officers recommended that the father should be allowed contact once every three weeks. This should begin immediately with his two younger children and then three