Training materials

Family law training materials

There are certain key areas of family law that are indispensable for both experienced family practitioners, and those new to family law, including trainee solicitors and paralegals. This subtopic sets out practical guidance on a range of family law topics, with introductory guidance for each area and navigational assistance to content including Practice Notes, Procedural Guides, Precedents and Forms.

See Practice Note: Family law training materials.

Family calculators

There are certain calculators available to assist family lawyers, including a child maintenance calculator, state pension calculator and legal aid calculator. Other calculators include, inter alia, retail price index (RPI) and consumer price index (CPI) calculators, a life expectancy calculator and an interest on judgment debt calculator.

See Practice Note: Family calculators.

Family flowcharts

Flowcharts set out the steps to be taken in various family proceedings in a graphic format with links to relevant overviews, Practice Notes, precedents, procedural guides, client guides, legislation, forms and further reading links.

See Practice Note for a full list of all available flowcharts: Index of family flowcharts.

Forms of address for the judiciary

Various

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Monumental Supreme Court decision on matrimonialisation and sharing principle (Standish v Standish)

Family analysis: The Supreme Court’s much-anticipated judgment confirms unequivocally that the sharing principle does not apply to non-matrimonial property. Sharing of matrimonial property will usually be 50:50, though there may be a departure from equal division where justified. Non-matrimonial property typically has either a pre-marital origin, or, where it is received during the currency of the marriage, an external source (eg an inheritance). Title to an asset is expressly not determinative as to whether that asset is or is not matrimonial. Though non-matrimonial property may become matrimonial (ie ‘matrimonialisation’) this will depend on how the parties have been dealing with the asset and whether, over time, they have been treating that asset as shared between them. The concept of matrimonialisation is to be applied neither ‘widely’ nor ‘narrowly’ (contrary to what the Court of Appeal had held)—again, the enquiry should focus on how the parties have dealt with the asset. Where an asset is transferred from one spouse to another with the intention to save tax (as had occurred in the case), this will not normally show that the asset is being treated as shared. The Supreme Court ultimately upheld the decision to dismiss the wife’s appeal, though it did not wholly agree with the Court of Appeal’s reasoning. Pursuant to that decision (made on the sharing basis) the wife would be provided with circa £25m of the total assets figure of circa £132.6m, being half of the matrimonial assets figure of £50.48m. David Wilkinson, solicitor at Slater Heelis, considers the judgment.

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