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NLJ this week: Divorces rising under lockdown

19 November 2020
Issue: 7911 / Categories: Legal News , Covid-19 , Family , Divorce
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The stresses and strains of lockdown appear to have provoked a surge in couples wanting to separate, Linda Lamb, solicitor and director of LSL Family Law, writes in NLJ this week
The increase occurs at a time when the―’already creaking’―family court is under incredible pressure due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While many clients want to go straight to the court, this is ‘the worst possible option’, Lamb writes.

In fact, a ‘long and strung out’ divorce process during the pandemic is ‘very likely to have damaging effects on the divorcing couple’s wellbeing’.

Lamb looks at the options and initiatives open to couples, noting ‘mediation and arbitration…are a family lawyer’s bread and butter in divorce cases’.

Issue: 7911 / Categories: Legal News , Covid-19 , Family , Divorce
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