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...
Applications for judicial separation are relatively rare in practice. It may arise where the client has strong religious and or cultural reasons for...
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...
General principlesIn children proceedings the general rule that costs will follow the event does not apply. Express statutory provision is made in the...
Coronavirus (COVID-19): Guidance has been issued, including by the President of the Family Division, regarding all proceedings in the Family Court in...
This responds considers who can prepare a report directed under section 37 of the Children Act 1989 (ChA 1989).ChA 1989, s 37 provides that where, in...
The use of social media in legal proceedings has increased exponentially over the past decade. It is now commonplace for evidence to be harvested from...
The best way to approach this issue is to consider what information the court would need in order to be satisfied that:•the care order can and should...
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 deals with expert evidence in public law children proceedings, including in care and adoption proceedings. It details the relevant...
Coronavirus (COVID-19): Guidance has been issued, including by the President of the Family Division, regarding all proceedings in the Family Court in...
Legislative provisionsThe legislative provisions regarding expert evidence are set out in the Family Procedure Rules 2010 (FPR 2010), SI 2010/2955, Pt...
Whereas the making of a special guardianship order will automatically discharge a care order by virtue of section 91(5A) of the Children Act 1989 (ChA...