Katherine Illsley

This Q&A considers the procedure for assessment in public children proceedings of a parent who lives in another jurisdiction.

This Q&A considers whether a parent in receipt of child maintenance has an obligation to inform the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) in the event that they cease to be the parent with care (PWC) of the child.

This Q&A discusses the steps that need to be taken where the first petitioner has issued a divorce petition and in response, the respondent files both an answer and their own petition.

This Q&A considers the rules concerning disclosure and illegally obtained evidence within financial remedy proceedings.

This Q&A examines the potential impact on housing needs of responsibilities in relation to a child who is not a child of the family.

This Q&A considers whether a pension lump sum will be taken into account in relation to the calculation of income for statutory child maintenance.

This Q&A considers whether the existence of a restraining order granted by the criminal court places any sort of restriction on the Family Court when considering a non-molestation order application in relation to the same alleged perpetrator and victim.

This Q&A considers whether an application for financial provision can be made in relation to a petition for nullity in the case of a void or voidable marriage.

This Q&A considers the service requirements for a non-molestation order made at the return hearing following an order made without notice.

This Q&A considers how a respondent who is in police custody may be served with a non-molestation order, an application for an occupation order and a notice of hearing.

This Q&A considers issues concerning parenthood and parental responsibility in cases involving assisted reproduction.

This Q&A considers whether a spouse who is excluded from the former matrimonial home under the terms of an occupation order may still register matrimonial home rights against the former matrimonial home.

This Q&A discusses in which situations a landlord can recover the costs of a valuation which was commissioned after, rather than before, the landlord served its counter-notice to a request for a lease extension.

This Q&A considers whether the purchase price in a contract for sale of a property should be entered as the actual purchase price of the property (for example £400,000), or whether it should be entered as the actual purchase price of the property, but less the amount of the deposit given as a gift to the purchaser by the vendor (for example, if the vendor gave £50,000 towards the deposit on a property sold at £400,000, the purchase price would be entered as £350,000).

This Q&A considers whether an agreement that contact between a non-resident parent and their child should only take place on condition that the non-resident parent undergoes regular drug and alcohol testing can be contained within a child arrangements order or whether it should be drafted as an undertaking.

This Q&A considers the circumstances in which it is appropriate for the court to attach a penal notice to a child arrangements order.

This Q&A considers the steps that may be taken by the resident parent in the event that they wish to suspend the contact provided for under an interim child arrangements order after the non-resident parent breaches a non-molestation order by being verbally abusive.

This Q&A considers whether an application for the enforcement of an order for spousal maintenance can be sought in the event that the defaulting party pays the maintenance, but typically pays it late.

This Q&A considers how an order for costs made in family proceedings may be enforced.

This Q&A considers the scenario of a without notice non-molestation order being granted by the court, but the respondent having no known address for service of the order.