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...
The specific rules regarding the service of applications for matrimonial orders (petitions) are contained in Family Procedure Rules 2010 (FPR 2010),...
Rule 9.26 of the Family Procedure Rules 2010 (FPR 2010), SI 2010/2955 sets out the procedure on an application for a consent order in financial remedy...
Provided that a property adjustment order includes an order for possession, it may be enforced by a writ or warrant for possession of land. In Larkman...
Magistrates have had jurisdiction to hear certain types of family cases sitting as the Family Procedure Court and subsequently as part of the Family...
Family proceedings are governed by the Family Procedure Rules 2010 (FPR 2010), SI 2010/2955. The rules in respect of private law proceedings relating...
In answering this Q&A, we have assumed that the injunctive factual findings were properly reasoned and expressed.The question asks whether the factual...
An application for a transcript is made in Form EX107 (Request for transcription of court or tribunal proceedings). See also notes for guidance (Form...
A means of payment order may only be made in relation to a ‘qualifying maintenance order’, generally a periodical payments order (final or interim). A...