Online divorceWhere a divorce is proceeding via the online service note that while rules relating to divorce proceedings are generally to be found in...
Coronavirus (COVID-19): Guidance has been issued, including by the President of the Family Division, regarding all proceedings in the Family Court in...
This Practice Note sets out the basic principles to be applied when drafting a financial consent order including the preparation and structure of the...
Coronavirus (COVID-19): Guidance has been issued, including by the President of the Family Division, regarding all proceedings in the Family Court in...
Online divorceOn 6 May 2018 the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) launched its online divorce service nationwide for the public acting as litigants in person....
The Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (MCA 1973) sets out the grounds on which a marriage is void or voidable and the bars preventing the grant of a decree...
Coronavirus (COVID-19): Guidance has been issued, including by the President of the Family Division, regarding all proceedings in the Family Court in...
A decree of nullity granted after 31 July 1971 in respect of a voidable marriage operates to annul the marriage with effect from decree absolute and...
The Precedent: Standard order 2.1—financial remedy order—omnibus derives from the suite of Precedent orders issued by the Financial Remedies Working...
It is a fundamental principle that full and frank disclosure of the financial position of husband and wife in financial remedy proceedings is made, in...
A marriage may be annulled either on the ground that it is void, or that it is voidable. Section 11 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (MCA 1973) sets...
Section 24A of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (MCA 1973) provides that the court may make an order for the sale of a property in which either or both...
The pre-action protocol set out in the annex to Family Procedure Rules 2010, PD 9A (FPR 2010) states (at para 12) that:‘If parties carry out voluntary...
It is not uncommon for financial remedies proceedings and bankruptcy proceedings to be ongoing at the same time, sometimes with the specific intention...
In the case of an undefended petition for divorce, the parties will typically receive notice of the date, time and place of the hearing of the decree...
The Family Procedure Rules 2010 (FPR 2010), SI 2010/2955 made changes to the terminology used in relation to proceedings for financial provision. The...
Under an individual voluntary agreement (IVA), a debtor avoids bankruptcy by entering into a repayment plan with their creditors. If the former spouse...
A financial order may be set aside on the basis of fraud, mistake, material non-disclosure, or a significant change of circumstance (often referred to...
The only general provision in the Family Procedure Rules 2010 (FPR 2010), SI 2010/2955 relating to withdrawal appears in FPR 2010, SI 2010/2955, 29.4,...