This week's edition of Family weekly highlights includes details of an evaluation report released by the Ministry of Justice on the Pathfinder pilot scheme and minutes of the Online Procedure Rule Committee meeting. Recent decisions on adoption orders and parental orders for children born via international surrogacy arrangements are detailed. A new Family public law HMCTS online service release notes tracker in Family Practical Guidance is also set out.

This week's edition of the Family weekly highlights includes analysis of section 423 of the Insolvency Act 1986 and Schedule 1 to the Children Act 1989 claims. Recent judgments on inherent jurisdiction and summary return, the Thwaite jurisdiction and setting aside pension sharing orders are considered.

This week's edition of Family weekly highlights includes details of guidance from HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) on barrister access to the MyHMCTS contested financial remedy service, 'hints and tips' for emailing the Courts and Tribunals Service Centre in divorce cases and details of three new demonstration videos for the contested financial remedy service, as well as a message from His Honour Judge Hess (lead judge for the London Financial Remedies Court (FRC)) on the likely imminent future mandation of the contested cases financial remedies portal.

This week's edition of Family weekly highlights includes consideration of how the courts approach contact when one of the parents is in prison and complex clinical issues and avoiding delay in serious medical treatment applications.

This week’s edition of the Family weekly highlights includes details of the national roll out of domestic abuse protection notices and domestic abuse protection orders, updated guidance on giving evidence by video link from abroad and the recently published Online Procedure Rules 2026 coming into force on 7 September 2026. Recent judgments on a local authority’s application for care orders following findings of sexual abuse and a father’s application for a summary return to France are also considered. Two new flowcharts have been added covering applications under section 91(14) of the Children Act 1989 for an order preventing an application of a specified kind being made with respect to the child concerned by any person named in the order without the leave (permission) of the court.

This week's edition of the Family weekly highlights includes recent judgments on a prohibited steps order to prevent a mother from disclosing to the parties’ children the father’s gender dysphoria diagnosis and gender identity, multiple linked applications for parental orders following surrogacy, an application to set aside a 1980 Hague Convention return order and financial non-disclosure. A Home Office assessment of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 since it received Royal Assent on 29 April 2021 is also set out. Two new checklists on the appointment of intermediaries and witness evidence in family proceedings have been added, together with a Practice Note exploring aspects of financial provision for children under Schedule 1 to the Children Act 1989 using contrasting case studies.

This week's edition of Family weekly highlights includes details of new practice guidance from the President of the Family Division on the use of intermediaries, lay advocates and cognitive assessments in family proceedings, the extension of the family mediation voucher scheme and HMCTS guidance for barristers using the financial remedy contested system. Recent judgments including the Supreme Court's dismissal of a father's application for a writ of habeas corpus seeking the release of his two children from the care of Worcestershire County Council under a care order and consideration by the Court of Appeal of the anonymisation of judges’ names in historic family proceedings are also set out.

This week’s edition of the Family weekly highlights includes details of the President of the Family Division’s revised family listing guidance taking effect from 31 August 2026 and the UK Supreme Court’s informal consultation on reducing the page limit for written cases from 50 pages to 30 pages. Analyses of the dissipation of assets in financial remedy proceedings and a decision by the Pension Protection Fund Ombudsman about incorrect information given on divorce by the Pension Protection Fund are included. Recent judgments on the use of AI in witness coaching and a husband’s application for an anti-suit injunction restraining his wife from pursuing matrimonial proceedings in India are also considered.

This week's edition of Family weekly highlights includes details of a financial provision case where the proceedings were stayed for non-court dispute resolution (NCDR) to take place prior to the completion of financial disclosure, a Court of Appeal decision on the distinction between matrimonial and non-matrimonial assets and the application of the sharing principle and a Family Court judgment dismissing an application for dissolution of a pacte civil de solidarité. Details of the fifth Family Procedure Rules 2010 Practice Direction update of 2024 and a HMCTS webinar on the financial remedy contested service portal are also set out, together with Practice Notes and Precedents which have been updated to reflect amendments to standard orders and the latest Family Procedure Rule Committee minutes.

This week's edition of the Family weekly highlights includes details of the House of Commons Justice Committee’s plan to examine the reform of the Family Court. Recent judgments on the determination of parental alienation and an application for permission to relocate internationally with children amid domestic abuse allegations are also considered together with procedural irregularities as the basis of an appeal, the making of final care orders at an issues resolution hearing and notification of a child’s birth and adoption plans to wider family members under the inherent jurisdiction.

This week's edition of the Family weekly highlights includes details of the speeches by the Master of Rolls and Lord Justice Birss at a Civil Procedure Rule Committee and Online Procedure Rule Committee event, the coming into force of the Arbitration Act 2025 and the minutes from the latest Family Procedure Rule Committee meeting. Analysis of the need to undertake a holistic risk assessment when making final care orders is set out, together with consideration of how to accommodate an asylum seeking child. Recent judgments on declarations of parentage and the use of expert reports in financial remedy proceedings are also considered.

This week's edition of Family weekly highlights includes details of recent decisions concerning applications to adduce new evidence and activating a suspended committal order. Details of the Autumn Budget 2024 are also set out.