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Breaking up is hard to do

04 May 2018 / Camilla Fusco
Issue: 7791 / Categories: Features , Brexit , Divorce , Family
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Camilla Fusco hopes the mist clears soon surrounding the fate of family law in post-Brexit Britain

  • With time running out for a bespoke arrangement, the shape of family law after the UK leaves the EU is still uncertain.

It is now over nine months since the European Union Bill was introduced into the House of Commons in July of last year. The government’s stated aim was to ensure the UK exits the EU with maximum ‘certainty, continuity and control’. We now know that we will be leaving the EU at 11pm on Friday 29 March 2019. It is still unclear as to how this will happen, although the government has indicated its wish to maintain a deep and special partnership with the EU. With approximately three million EU citizens living in the UK and around one million British citizens living in other EU member states, the implications of Brexit for European couples separating or divorcing and for their families is wide-reaching and of concern to all family practitioners.

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