An unusual maintenance variation case
Reported cases on maintenance variation (i.e. where one party applies to the court to increase or decrease the amount of a maintenance order) are relatively rare these days. The case B v G, however,...
View ArticleThe Brexit bomb: Article 50 and family law
Stowe Family Law Senior Partner examines the many legal implications of Brexit for international family law. Tick, tick, tick – boom! It looks like any day now the Prime Minister will trigger Article...
View ArticlePrenuptial agreements & postnups: an essential guide
A prenuptial agreement is a contract between a couple intending to marry or to enter into a civil partnership to regulate their affairs in the event of the relationship coming to an end. Prenuptial...
View ArticleDivorce dispute lasts longer than marriage
An ongoing financial dispute between a divorced couple has now run longer than the pair were married. The former husband was a commodities broker with homes in Ibiza and Verbier, Switzerland, while the...
View ArticleMagistrates given teeth to deal with maintenance defaulters
Reading the judgment in the recent case K (Remo -Power of Magistrates To Issue Bench Warrant) took me back to my days as a young solicitor attending the local magistrates’ court every week to deal with...
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A maintenance order for pets?
ASK A FAMILY LAWYER In this regular column, Stowe Family Law solicitors answer readers’ questions on different legal issues. Today’s topic goes to Rachel Roberts, a Partner in our Leeds office. If you...
View ArticleThe tragic myth of the ‘gold digger’
Any woman who locks herself into the bathroom on her wedding night and refuses to come out until her husband has written her a cheque for half a million dollars is likely to attract the attention of...
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Divorce: the View From the North by Alison McKee
The British media love divorce cases – they often provide intriguing glimpses into the lives (and finances) of the rich or famous. However, Scottish and English divorce laws are very different so you...
View ArticleDivorce proceedings to be split from financial applications
Divorce proceedings to be split from financial applications From next Monday (June 19) family court divorce proceedings will run separately to financial applications. The rollout of ‘administrative...
View ArticleMaintenance variation, adultery and more
A week in family law The proper approach to applications to vary maintenance orders is to be considered by the Supreme Court, in the case Mills v Mills. The facts of the case are that the parties were...
View ArticleHomemade separation agreements are a bad idea
I recall when I was practising occasionally coming across cases where, prior to consulting solicitors, the husband and wife had drawn up a written agreement purporting to set out an agreed...
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