This week's edition of Family weekly highlights includes details of a recent judgment regarding an application to permanently remove children from England and Wales to the UAE. Details of the new Official Solicitor litigation friend referral form are also set out.

This week’s edition of the Family weekly highlights includes analysis of the recent Supreme Court decision that children’s views may inform the grave risk assessment under art 13(b) of the 1980 Hague Convention. Recent judgments on costs in financial remedy proceedings where there are allegations of fraudulent non-disclosure, a child’s application for prohibited steps and specific issue orders to prevent the parents removing him from England to live in Pakistan and an appeal against a final child arrangements order are also considered.

This week's edition of Family weekly highlights includes consideration of a decision from the President of the Family Division where a final divorce order was obtained and upheld without the client's consent, together with mortgage borrowing and property settlement orders in Schedule 1 to the Children Act 1989 cases. The correct approach to be followed by a judge seeking to identify the perpetrator of injuries to a child and details of the evidence of the President of the Family Division to the Justice Committee are also set out. Practitioners are reminded of changes to mediation information and assessment meetings (MIAMs) in force from 29 April 2024 and the increase to court fees in certain family proceedings from 1 May 2024.

This week's edition of Family weekly highlights includes analysis of the long awaited second edition of the Pension Advisory Group (PAG) report by members of the PAG, together with analysis of the Court of Appeal decision on the wide-ranging powers of the Family Court under the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 and analysis of the Family Court decision to strike out an application to vary the payment date in respect of a secured lump sum order. Long-term fostering as a plan for permanency is also considered, together with details of HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) Family Public Law (FPL) service’s release note regarding adding an application in Form C1 when issuing an application in Form C110A.

This week's edition of Family weekly highlights includes analysis of domestic abuse and conduct in financial remedy proceedings, together with consideration of pre-marital agreements, needs and the impact of excluding a sharing claim. Two new Practice Notes are also set out, Fast find key family precedents and Fast find key family financial provision precedents. These Practice Notes contain links to the key family precedents with accompanying drafting notes available in Lexis+® UK, the standard orders published as part of the standard orders project and Lexis+® UK client guides, which are precedent letters on a wide range of family law issues that may be sent directly by the family law practitioner to a client.

This week's edition of the Family weekly highlights includes details of a release note confirming that parties can upload accelerated first appointment procedure orders directly to the contested Financial Remedy Service portal for consideration and approval by the judiciary. Details of the Online Procedure Rule Committee meeting of 22 May 2026 and the change to court fees from 13 July 2026 are included. Recent judgments on a transnational marriage abandonment with domestic abuse allegations, summary return orders and a father’s application for a publicity order within 1980 Hague Convention proceedings after the mother failed to return their two young children are also considered, together with new Practice Notes on recovery orders in public children proceedings and domestic abuse protection notices (DAPNs).

This week's edition of the Family weekly highlights includes details of the fourth Family Procedure Rules 2010 Practice Direction update of 2025. Recent judgments on determining the threshold for making a care order, summary return orders and deciding parents’ entitlement to child benefit under the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 are also considered.

This week's edition of the Family weekly highlights includes details of the President’s decision on parental alienation and unregulated experts and new requirements to upload divorce documents with final consent orders to conclude contested financial proceedings. Analysis of the matrimonialisation of pension assets based on common intention is included. Recent judgments on the disclosure of findings of fact to the Disclosure and Barring Service, applications for contempt following a return order and cross-applications concerning jurisdiction and forum conveniens issues are also considered. Five new Practice Notes on court bundles have been added following the amendments to FPR 2010, PD 27A that are in force from 2 March 2026.

This week's edition of the Family weekly highlights includes analysis of the new Pension Schemes Bill and consideration of Hadkinson and unless orders where there is a failure to comply with a legal services payment order. Recent judgments on the interaction between accommodation under the Children Act 1989 and the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 and the inherent jurisdiction to facilitate the summary return of a child are considered. Two new flowcharts on applications under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction 1980 (the 1980 Hague Convention) and the limited defences that may be raised in response to an application under the 1980 Hague Convention are also set out.

This week's edition of the Family weekly highlights includes analyses of two Court of Appeal decisions considering reliance on the evidence of an alleged ‘unqualified’ psychologist in public children proceedings and the set aside of a final financial remedy order. Recent judgments on the recognition of a foreign adoption order and an application under Schedule 1 to the Children Act 1989 to vary/extend earlier financial orders are set out. Updates to the Financial Remedy Service portal to enable automatic case assignment to solicitors and the Upper Tribunal’s open justice practice guidance ending automatic anonymity in social security and child support cases are also considered. A new checklist has been added on the preparation of court bundles in proceedings other than financial remedy proceedings.

This week's edition of Family weekly highlights includes revised guidance from the President of the Family Division, Sir Andrew McFarlane, on the reporting pilot in the family courts and updated Family Mediation Council and Family Justice Council mediation guidance following the changes to Part 3 of the Family Procedure Rules 2010 in April 2024. The new Supreme Court Rules 2024, SI 2024/949 and the launch of the Domestic Abuse Protection Notice (DAPN) and Domestic Abuse Protection Order (DAPO) pilot are also considered. Details of a new Precedent client guide on financial provision after overseas divorce or dissolution are set out, together with seven new flowcharts on divorce and financial proceedings.

This week’s edition of the Family weekly highlights includes recent judgments on a father’s application for judicial review of a local authority’s decision to place his children under a child protection plan, a husband’s application for permission to appeal against orders requiring him to pay towards the wife’s legal costs and issues arising in financial provision following a foreign divorce. A new Practice Note containing a selection of recent Q&As addressing common questions faced when dealing with Family law issues, arranged by topic and linked to other more detailed content within Lexis®+ UK Practical Guidance has also been added.