Family

In brief

The Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill will increase child support troubles, predicts David Burrows

Elizabeth Fitzgerald and Greville Healey discuss the construction of leases and the property rights of cohabiting couples

The controversial Child Support Agency (CSA) is to be replaced by C-MEC, a body with greatly enhanced powers to force non-resident parents to pay child maintenance.

Once bitten, twice shy? Not the Insider…

Alan Miller—who last year was ordered by the House of Lords to hand over £5m to his childless wife of three years—is taking his case to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

Payments to bereaved people do not come close to the financial loss they actually suffer, researchers claim.

Validity of a post-nuptial agreement

Family lawyers have backed calls by the Court of Appeal for a change in divorce laws following its judgment last week in Charman v Charman.

The Human Rights Act 1998 did not give rise to a duty of care to the parent of a child on the part of a local authority when exercising, through social workers, its duty to protect children from abuse, the Court of Appeal has ruled.