Divorce

A range of options are available for separating couples wishing to iron out their disputes without going head-to-head in court. In this week’s NLJ, Joanna Newton explores what’s available and sets out the pros, cons and quirks of each

Despite the 2022 reforms, separating couples may wait years for financial remedy proceedings to be concluded. Catherine Doherty Montanaro considers the implications

Time marches on, especially for ex-couples waiting for financial remedies proceedings. This creates difficulties

Divorce in the Supreme Court—Harriet Errington highlights the power of Pt III applications

In the first of two articles on anonymisation in family proceedings, David Burrows considers what is meant by judicial comity across all courts

The Court of Appeal has remitted a ‘long, bitter and extortionately expensive’ divorce case for a financial remedy hearing with a litigation funder attached as a party, following a ‘procedural quagmire’

The Court of Appeal has confirmed the approach the court should take to an application to rescind a decree nisi, in a landmark judgment

How can the courts define & deal with cases of parental alienation? David Emmerson weighs up the causes of unjustified hostility & the importance of maintaining family contact

Parental alienation has attracted some controversy. In this week’s NLJ, David Emmerson, of Anthony Gold Solicitors, considers a recent case in which the court ordered that a mother have no further direct or indirect contact with her children following a series of incidents including having an intermediary give the children tracking devices ad mobile phones which they were to keep secret from their father

In the first of a two-part series, David Burrows puts the case for pre-conditional order approval of financial settlements