A judge has been urged to write off a £350,000 claim in a divorce settlement because a man has since been made bankrupt. It raises an interesting question, namely can a bankruptcy make previous settlements between a couple null and void. The case involves Alexander McRoberts, who was once the head of a company with [...]
Are you one of the three million, who, according to a survey, have prepared for divorce but never actually taken the plunge? The survey, from ComRes polling, was commissioned by Resolution, the organisation for lawyers involved in mediation between separating couples and questioned 2,000 people on their attitudes to family life. It found 13% of [...]
The Lawyer Mediators Group, a group of legal experts in the field of mediation, have seen quite a rise in the demand for their services as a result of some changes in legislation which now encourages all divorcing and separating couples to make use of national family mediation services. The aim is to get more [...]
The Law Commission has issued scathing criticism of the present divorce laws, comparing judges in family courts to bus drivers who have been ordered to drive a bus but have not been told where to go or why they are to go there. Is it right to take such a stance? The commission has launched [...]
An unusual case has been publicised involving a man who said he had not realised that his wife was intending to divorce him. Though he apparently knew the marriage had some difficulties, the first he knew of the divorce was when he received papers informing him that the Decree Nisi had been granted. He has [...]
While January is often seen as a peak time for divorces and separations, this year the government is reminding couples of the option of mediation as an alternative to heading straight for court. The website directgov sees record numbers of people logging on to search for the word “divorce” or other related terms in the first few weeks [...]
