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...
The basis of Duxbury calculationsA Duxbury calculation is an actuarial calculation designed to identify the capital sum required to meet a periodical...
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...
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...
On an application for financial remedies, the court has the power to divide up the assets of parties to a marriage. This can include pension assets....
Family Procedure Rules (FPR 2010), SI 2010/2955, 7.9 provides that an application for a matrimonial order may be withdrawn at any time before it has...
The courts have only limited jurisdiction in relation to child maintenance orders, the primary jurisdiction lying with the child maintenance service...
A party to proceedings, like any other adult, is entitled to change their name at any time, whether before or after a financial consent order is made...
On an uncontested application for a matrimonial order, the applicant may apply for their costs. Respondents may not wish to challenge the application...
Where one spouse or civil partner (A) is entitled to occupy a dwelling-house, whether because they own it or have a tenancy, and the other spouse or...
The starting point in financial cases is the checklist set out in section 25 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (MCA 1973). The court must have regard...