David Salter

This Q&A considers the implications of a change of name during the course of divorce and financial remedy proceedings.

This Q&A considers how application for divorce is issued in England and Wales served on respondent living in California?

This Q&A considers how the date on which a petitioner may first apply for decree nisi is calculated in a case where an acknowledgment of service has been returned indicating an intention to defend but no answer has been filed.

This Q&A considers whether a respondent would need to apply for a nullity order where they are disputing the divorce on the grounds of validity due to non-consummation.

This Q&A considers whether there is a conflict of interest if a solicitor acts for both applicants under the joint application process in the Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020 and then if the same firm acts for one of the parties in relation to financial provision.

This Q&A looks at the court form to be used on an application to vary an order for periodical payments.

This Q&A considers the options and procedures available to a respondent, where the applicant in a sole application for divorce refuses or fails to apply for the conditional order.

This Q&A looks at the application of the sharing principle where there is a disparity of income post-separation.

This Q&A considers the procedure for enforcing child maintenance payments between parties in the UK and Sweden and the application of the 2007 Hague Convention to maintenance decisions made before implementation period completion day (11 pm on 31 December 2020).

This Q&A considers the impact of remarriage on an application for financial remedies, including which date the court will consider as to whether an application has been made prior to remarriage.

This Q&A considers, in divorce proceedings commenced after 6 April 2022, the steps, the applicant must take where the court served the divorce application by post and the respondent has failed to return the acknowledgment of service.

This Q&A considers whether, in divorce proceedings commenced after the implementation of the Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020 (DDSA 2020), the can court make a costs order following a successful application for deemed service, even though the proceedings do not fall within the description of a disputed case. The Q&A also considers how the position would differ if the proceedings were commenced before the implementation of DDSA 2020.

This Q&A considers whether an applicant in divorce proceedings can issue an application for financial remedy proceedings in Form A without the respondent’s address.

This Q&A looks at a provision in a financial consent order as to the sale of a former matrimonial home.

This Q&A considers whether an open offer can be made in financial remedy proceedings by opening up a previous without prejudice offer.

This Q&A considers whether, in financial remedy proceedings, the court will make a lump sum order against a party who has taken money from a child’s bank account for their own use.

This Q&A considers proceedings under Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989 (ChA 1989). Can an application be made for a lump sum to discharge legal costs incurred in ChA 1989, section 8 proceedings, where those proceedings have already concluded?

This Q&A considers whether private pension income be included as ‘income’ for the purposes of the calculation of child support, where the non-resident parent (NRP) is in receipt of both the state pension and a private pension.

This Q&A considers the circumstances in which a party who has formed a subsequent marriage or civil partnership be named as the applicant in an application by consent for a financial remedy after divorce/dissolution and the restrictions upon the forms of financial order that can be made in such a party’s favour.

This Q&A considers whether a party to a financial remedy proceeding is required to serve a third party, who is a joint owner of a property with one or both of the parties, with Forms A and C.