Coronavirus (COVID-19): Guidance has been issued, including by the President of the Family Division, regarding all proceedings in the Family Court in...
Procedure for an application for a non-molestation order—Covid-19In the exceptional circumstances of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic guidance has...
Coronavirus (COVID-19): Guidance has been issued, including by the President of the Family Division, regarding all proceedings in the Family Court in...
Coronavirus (COVID-19): Guidance has been issued, including by the President of the Family Division, regarding all proceedings in the Family Court in...
The court’s power to order periodical payments is contained in section 23(1)(a) of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (MCA 1973) and Schedule 5, Part 1,...
This Practice Note sets out the procedural steps to be taken where the parties have reached agreement by consent within financial remedy proceedings,...
Cohabitants do not have the same rights to make property claims as married couples or civil partners, and disputes between cohabitants regarding their...
This Practice Note is impacted by the exit of the UK from the EU on 31 January 2020. This has implications, inter alia, for practitioners considering...
Coronavirus (COVID-19): Guidance has been issued, including by the President of the Family Division, regarding all proceedings in the Family Court in...
Coronavirus (COVID-19): Guidance has been issued, including by the President of the Family Division, regarding all proceedings in the Family Court in...
Bar on petition for divorce within one year of marriageA petition for divorce cannot be presented to the court before the expiration of one year from...
The Family Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2018, SI 2018/440, amended the Family Procedure Rules 2010 (FPR 2010), SI 2010/2955, primarily introducing new...
The court’s power to vary orders is set out in section 31 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (MCA 1973) and in Schedule 5 to the Civil Partnership Act...
Note that the single Family Court replaced the previous three tiers of court structure (family proceedings court, County Court, High Court), save that...
A means of payment order (MPO) is an order requiring the payer of a 'qualifying periodical maintenance order' to make payments by a particular method...
This document provides general guidance regarding an application to the court for maintenance on divorce or dissolution of a civil partnership. Your...
This Practice Note sets out the circumstances in which the court may make a lump sum order by way of capitalised maintenance on an application for the...
Coronavirus (COVID-19): Guidance has been issued, including by the President of the Family Division, regarding all proceedings in the Family Court in...
Care should be taken when drafting the terms of a periodical payments order to ensure that it reflects either the agreement reached, where it is to be...
The court’s power to order periodical payments is contained in section 23(1)(a) of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (MCA 1973) and Schedule 5, Part 1,...
The basis of Duxbury calculationsA Duxbury calculation is an actuarial calculation designed to identify the capital sum required to meet a periodical...
Once a party remarries, they are barred from making an application to the court for a financial provision order or property adjustment order (section...
The usual wording as to the index linking of periodical payments is as set out in the Precedent: Standard order 2.1—financial remedy order—omnibus at...
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